Malik Ambar Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean

Name: Malik Ambar Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean
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ISBN: 9780190269784

ISBN-10: 0190269782

ISBN-13: 9780190269784

Edition: 2016

Authors: Omar H. Ali

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Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean offers a rare look at an individual who began in obscurity in eastern Africa and reached the highest levels of South Asian political and military affairs in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Ambar's rise from slavery in East Africa to ruler in South Asia sheds light on the diverse mix of people, products, and practices that shaped the Indian Ocean world during the early modern period. Originally from Ethiopia--historically called Abyssinia--Ambar is best known for having defended the Deccan from…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Omar H. Ali is an assistant professor of history at Towson University in Maryland. A Fulbright Scholar, he has received research grants from Harvard University and the University of Michigan. An honors graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his PhD from Columbia University and has served as an editor forSouls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.