Letters to the Sheikh
- \(\bf Topic\) Political and economic transformations in the Indian Ocean World as reflected in the letters to a family of tribal sheikhs in central Oman during the 19th century \(\textbf {Main source}\) The letter archive of the "Abriyin sheikh family in the al Hamra" oasis \(\bf Question\) How to connect the macro level history of the Indian Ocean World and the micro level history of the ʿAbriyin as an important tribal group? \(\bf Method\) A corpus of selected letters from the collection is examined with a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis; general survey and case studies on communication networks, economic relations and historical semantics \(\bf Digital\) tools SQL relational database and responsive Web App dbWebGen (eScience Center, University of Tuebingen ; available at GitHub
| Author: | Michaela Hoffmann-RufGND, Johann BüssowORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-78359 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13154/294-7835 |
| Subtitle (English): | new perspectives on politics and economy in the 19\(^{th}\) century Indian Ocean World |
| Document Type: | Image |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/02/05 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/02/05 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | DH Day 3; Digital Humanities; Digital Humanities Day |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaft |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Philologie |
| Konferenz-/Sammelbände: | Digital Humanities Day #3 (14.-15.01.2021) |
| Licence (German): |  Keine Creative Commons Lizenz - es gelten die Rechteeinräumung und das deutsche Urheberrecht |
