BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18457-e45c47a2d27479a2c47022f7180c8e26@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260711T155441Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T170000 SUMMARY:“The View from the Islamic Port-City: Mercantile Disputes and Scribal En counters in the Early Modern World” DESCRIPTION:\nDid the empires of the eastern Islamic world—the Mughals a nd Safavids—care about the seas\, and how might we imagine the Indian Oc ean from the vantage point of these agrarian-bureaucratic states? Histor ians often argue that these empires lacked maritime archives\, especiall y when compared to their extensive agrarian records. This talk challenge s this assumption by foregrounding problems of method. Scholarship on th e early modern period has relied heavily on colonial archives in Portugu ese\, Dutch\, English\, and French\, reinforcing narratives of European expansion in Asia. Within these archives lie miscellaneous caches of cop ied and translated Persian documents that reveal everyday scribal encoun ters in Islamic port cities from Bandar ‘Abbas to Masulipatnam. Through cases of stolen ships and mercantile disputes across the Persian Gulf\, the talk demonstrates a continuum of governance linking agrarian and mar itime realms across these two empires. By emphasizing inter-Asian exchan ges\, it reflects on the category of the “global” without Europe.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/the-view-from-the-islamic -port-city/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Did the empires of the eastern Islamic world—the Mughals and Safavids—care about the se as, and how might we imagine the Indian Ocean from the vantage point of these agrarian-bureaucratic states? Historians often argue that these em pires lacked maritime archives, especially when compared to their extens ive agrarian records. This talk challenges this assumption by foreground ing problems of method. Scholarship on the early modern period has relie d heavily on colonial archives in Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French , reinforcing narratives of European expansion in Asia. Within these arc hives lie miscellaneous caches of copied and translated Persian document s that reveal everyday scribal encounters in Islamic port cities from Ba ndar ‘Abbas to Masulipatnam. Through cases of stolen ships and mercantil e disputes across the Persian Gulf, the talk demonstrates a continuum of governance linking agrarian and maritime realms across these two empire s. By emphasizing inter-Asian exchanges, it reflects on the category of the “global” without Europe.

For more details: https://even ts.la.psu.edu/event/the-view-from-the-islamic-port-city/

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