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Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of
seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf
almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional
information available, based on local almanacs, Arabic texts and
poetry by Gulf individuals, ethnographic interviews, and online
forums. A major feature of the book is tracing the history of terms
and concepts in the local seasonal knowledge of the Gulf, including
an important genre about weather stars, stemming back to the ninth
century CE. Also covered are pearl diving, fishing, seafaring, and
pastoral activities. This book will be of interest to scholars who
study the entire Arab region, since much of the lore was shared and
continues through the present. It will also be of value to scholars
who work on the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Trade Network, as well as
the history of folk astronomy in the Arab World.
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