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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Terms, Translation, and Transliteration

Introduction. Temporizing across the Indian Ocean

Chapter 1. Drought and New Mobilities in the Omani Interior

Chapter 2. The Customs Master and Customs of Credit in Zanzibar

Chapter 3. Sultans at Sea: Mobility and the Omani States

Chapter 4. Halwa and Identity in the Western Indian Ocean World

Chapter 5. Tippu Tip’s Kin, from Oman to the Eastern Congo

Chapter 6. Freed Slaves: Manumission and Mobility before 1873

Chapter 7. Acts for Consuls and Consular Acts: Documents, Manumission, and Ocean Travel after 1873

Chapter 8. A Dhow on Lake Victoria

Chapter 9. “Everything Is Pledged to Its Time”: Salih bin Ali, Debt, and Rebellion in the Omani Interior

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index