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The History of the Indian Ocean World: New Directions in Recent Research - For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World. By Wilson Chacko Jacob. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xxi, 276 pp. ISBN: 9781503609631 (paper). - Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World. By Elizabeth A. Lambourn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi, 301 pp. ISBN: 9781107173880 (cloth). - Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast. By Sebastian R. Prange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi, 344 pp. ISBN: 9781108424387 (cloth). - India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange. By Gagan D. S. Sood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9781107551725 (paper).

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For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World. By Wilson Chacko Jacob. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xxi, 276 pp. ISBN: 9781503609631 (paper).
Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World. By Elizabeth A. Lambourn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi, 301 pp. ISBN: 9781107173880 (cloth).
Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast. By Sebastian R. Prange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi, 344 pp. ISBN: 9781108424387 (cloth).

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2020

Richard M. Eaton
Richard M. Eaton*
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reaton@email.arizona.edu
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 1061 - 1066
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1 Panikkar, K. M., Asia and Western Dominance: A Survey of the Vasco da Gama Epoch of Asian History (London: Allen & Unwin, 1953)Google Scholar.

2 Goitein, S. D., A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967)Google Scholar.

3 Given Sood's scrupulous attention to terminology, it seems odd that the book's title includes “Islamic heartlands,” a term that is not only non-emic—even Orientalist—but dubious, given that by 1747, India was hardly peripheral in the Islamic world.