In this volume, André Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind—India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. The growth and development of a world economy in and around the Indian Ocean was effected by continued economic, social, and cultural integration into ever wider and more complex patterns under the aegis of Islam.Please note that <i>Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries</i> was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09249 8, still available).