Mawsim (Monsoon in Arabic)

The Khareef is here in Monsoon Asia. Tarikh and Trade are intertwined with the Monsoon season, in the pre coal era of globalisation, and there was a globalised world before European colonialism.

Bombay, which was a dowry turned out to the jewel of the Crown on the Western Indian Ocean, as can be read from Nile Green’s Bombay Islam.

As one looks beyond the edges of Bandra Bandstand, a tourist magnet thanks for Bollywood celebrities having one of their homes, the Sea towards Aden, Salalah and Mombasa gives hope, and the Dhow trade continues through Vahan’s as given in Nidhi Mahajan’s book- Moorings.

Looking forward to Fahad Bishara’s new book coming up soon as well.