Introduction, Farouk Topan and Stéphane Pradines; Part I: Muslim Identities, Literature and Diasporas; 1. Developing the Harari Mu??af: The Indian Ocean Milieu of Ethiopian Scribes, Sana Mirza; 2. The Making of a Qur'?n Manuscript in Lamu Archipelago: The Indian Ocean Cross Cultural Influence , Walid Ghali; 3. Muslim Identities of the Indian Ocean: The Ibadi Al Bu Sa'id of Oman during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Beatrice Nicolini; 4. Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in the Zanzibar Sultanate, Valerie J. Hoffman; 5. Transcending Boundaries: Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete and Siti binti Saad, Farouk Topan; 6. Exploring the Geographies and Locales in Shaykh Jamali Dehlawi's Siyar al-??rif?n (The Virtues of Gnostics), Gulfishan Khan; 7.

A Persian view of the maritime Muslim frontier in Southeast Asia: The J?mi? al-barr wa?l-ba?r, Roghayeh Ebrahimi; 8. 'Sword of the Two Sanctuaries': Islam of and in the Modern Indian Ocean, M. Reza Pirbhai; Part II: Monuments and Heritage in Muslim Contexts; 9. The Indian Ocean as a Martime Cultural Landscape and Heritage Route, Eric Falt; 10. Indian Ocean Heritage and Sustainable Conservation, from Zanzibar to Kilwa, Stephen Battle and Pierre Blanchard; 11. Early Swahili mosques: the role of Ibadi and Ismaili communities, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries, Stéphane Pradines; 12. Traditional Bohra Dwellings of Gujarat, India: Architectural Response to Cultural Ethos, Madhavi Desai; 13. Regionalism in Religious Architecture of India: A Comparative Study of Mosques in Gujarat and Kerala, Miki Desai; 14.

Architecture of Coral Stone Mosques of the Maldives, Mohamed Mauroof Jameel; 15. The Development of Early Islamic Architecture and Decoration in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago (Nusantara), Bernard O'Kane; About the Contributors; Index.