With a focus on the production and transmission of islamic law in the indian ocean, the chapters in this book draw from and add to recent discourses on the legal histories and anthropologies of the indian ocean rim as well as to the conversations on global islamic circulations. By the beginning of the ninth century, muslim jurists had already developed a maritime legal system covering most, if not all, aspects of shipping, in addition to international laws pertaining to the legal status of the high seas and territorial waters in islamic legal thought. This book explores the ways in which muslim communities across the indian ocean world produced and shaped islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial,. The indian ocean region is home to the largest muslim populations in the world From cape town to canton, mogadishu to maguindanao, zanzibar to malabar, makassar to mombasa and surat to sulu, islamic communities have developed since the rise of islam until the present day. In short, he pointed to the indian ocean's legibility, and at a critical moment
By the time the correspondent wrote down his question, the western indian ocean was undergoing a profound commercial transformation Regional commodities, personal property, and credit circulated around the coasts
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