...Nancy Um This article brings together the trade records of the Dutch and English East India Companies' merchants, chronicles in Arabic, and a published French travel narrative to shed light on an overlooked phenomenon, that of early modern medical diplomacy to Qasimi Yemen during the early...

..., and languages, this special issue brings together literary scholars and historians studying different parts of the Indian Ocean, opening different windows to parts of a diverse whole. The essays range geographically from India to Yemen, from Southeast Asia to South Africa, essentially circling the Indian...

... with the Levant Com- pany’s, underestimated England’s notoriety as a nation of thieves and pirates 172 GENRE and expected that it should. Supposing that the fourth voyage (1608 – 10) had opened trade at Mocha in Ottoman-­ruled Arabia Felix (Yemen), mariners of the sixth voyage, like General...