Merchants and Missionaries in the Indian Ocean

This work argues that an interdisciplinary framework for analysis of the communities in the Indian Ocean region is essential in order to delve into deeper analysis of the complexities that the region and its society harnessed through centuries old maritime linkages with various groups. A systematic analysis of the communities of Indian Ocean who possess diverse ethnologies and different cultures could not be complete without implying various methods of ethnography, history, and sociology and etc. rather than merely depending on historical tools. This work mainly explores two aspects among these entirely multi-elementary maritime exchanges in the development of littoral societies and cultures through it; the aspects of religion and the movements of goods, i.e., the trade and the faith.