Title

Muslims, Matriliny, andA Midsummer Night's Dream: European Encounters with the Mappilas of Malabar, India.

Authors

Malieckal, Bindu

Abstract

Explores the interaction between Europeans and the Mappilas, the Muslims of Malabar in South India, and the influence of the contact on the literature, whether Arabic history, Malayan Text, Portuguese narrative or English fiction. Role of the Mappilas in the Indian enterprises before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama in 1498; Contentious elements of European-Mappila relations; Causes of the tension for European traders in Malabar.

Subjects

INDIA; MOPLAHS; EUROPEANS; LITERATURE & history; ISLAM; ARABIC literature; ARABS -- History; MALAYAN literature; ENGLISH fiction; BUSINESS enterprises; GAMA, Vasco da, 1469-1524

Publication

Muslim World, 2005, Vol 95, Issue 2, p297

ISSN

0027-4909

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1111/j.1478-1913.2005.00092.x