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Dhow (Arabic داو dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region. Historians are divided as to whether the dhow was invented by Arabs or Indians.[1][2] Typically sporting long thin hulls, dhows are trading vessels primarily used to carry heavy items, such as fruit, fresh water, or other heavy merchandise, along the coasts of Eastern Arabia (Arab states of the Persian Gulf),[3] East Africa, Yemen and coastal South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh). Larger dhows have crews of approximately thirty, smaller ones typically around twelve. HistoryThe exact origins of the dhow are lost to history. Most scholars believe that it originated in India between 600 BC to 600 AD.{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}} Some claim that the sambuk, a type of dhow, may be derived from the Portuguese caravel.[4] The Yemeni Hadhrami people, as well as Omanis, for centuries came to Beypore, in Kerala, India for their dhows. This was because of the good timber in the Kerala forests, the availability of good coir rope, and the skilled carpenters who specialized in ship building. In former times, the sheathing planks of a dhow's hull were held together by coconut rope. Beypore dhows are known as 'Uru' in Malayalam, the local language of Kerala. Settlers from Yemen, known as 'Baramis', are still active in making urus in Kerala. In the 1920s, British writers identified Al Hudaydah as the center for dhow building. Those built in Al Hudaydah were smaller in size, and used for travel along the coasts. They were constructed of acacia found in Yemen.[5] Captain Alan Villiers (1903–1982) documented the days of sailing trade in the Indian Ocean by sailing on dhows between 1938 and 1939 taking numerous photographs and publishing books on the subject of dhow navigation.[6][7] Even to the present day, dhows make commercial journeys between the Persian Gulf and East Africa using sails as their only means of propulsion. Their cargo is mostly dates and fish to East Africa and mangrove timber to the lands in the Persian Gulf. They often sail south with the monsoon in winter or early spring, and back again to Arabia in late spring or early summer.{{Citation needed|date = September 2012}} NavigationFor celestial navigation, dhow sailors have traditionally used the kamal, an observation device that determines latitude by finding the angle of the Pole Star above the horizon.[8] Types
The term "dhow" is sometimes also applied to certain smaller lateen-sail rigged boats traditionally used in the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf area, as well as in the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to the Bay of Bengal. These include the feluccas used in Egypt, Sudan and Iraq, and the Dhoni used in the Maldives, as well as the tranki, ghrab and ghalafah.[17] All these vessels have common elements with the dhow. On the Swahili Coast, in countries such as Kenya, the Swahili word used for dhow is "jahazi".[1] GallerySee also{{Portal|Middle East|Nautical}}
References1. ^1 {{cite web |last=Briggs|first=Philip|title=Dhows of the Swahili coast|url= http://www.zanzibar-travel-guide.com/bradt_guide.asp?bradt=1904.| work =Zanzibar Travel Guide|accessdate= 6 September 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web|title= The History & construction of the dhow |url = http://nabataea.net/ships.html|publisher = Nabataea |accessdate = 6 September 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LG4gAAAAMAAJ&ql|title=Arab Dhows of Eastern Arabia|year=1949}} 4. ^{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=James |title=Traditional Arab sailing ships |url=http://www.al-bab.com/bys/articles/taylor03.htm |publisher=The British-Yemeni Society |accessdate=6 September 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715154255/http://al-bab.com/bys/articles/taylor03.htm |archivedate=15 July 2012 |df=dmy-all }} 5. ^{{cite book | last =Prothero| first= GW |title= Arabia | year = 1920| publisher = HM Stationery Office | location =London |page=99 |url= http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/99/}} 6. ^{{Citation | url = http://www.al-bab.com/bys/books/villiers06.htm | first = Alan | last = Villiers | title = An Account of Sailing with the Arabs in their Dhows, in the Red Sea, round the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; Pearling in the Persian Gulf; and the Life of the Shipmasters and the Mariners of Kuwait | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120216233712/http://www.al-bab.com/bys/books/villiers06.htm | archivedate = 16 February 2012 | df = dmy-all }}. 7. ^{{Citation | url = https://www.questia.com/library/book/monsoon-seas-the-story-of-the-indian-ocean-by-alan-villiers.jsp | first = Alan | last = Villiers | title = Monsoon Seas: The Story of the Indian Ocean | publisher = Questia}}. 8. ^{{cite web|title=Ancient Sailing and Navigation|url=http://nabataea.net/sailing.html|publisher=Nabataea.net|accessdate=7 September 2012}} 9. ^{{cite web | title =The Traditional Dhow|url= http://www.omanet.om/english/culture/boats.asp?cat=cult |publisher=Ministry of Information | place = Oman | accessdate = 7 September 2012}} 10. ^{{Citation | first1 = George Fadlo | last1 = Hourani | first2 = John | last2 = Carswell | title = Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times | publisher = Princeton University Press | year = 1995}}. 11. ^{{Citation | publisher = Facts & details | title = China | contribution-url = http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1102&catid=2&subcatid=90 | contribution = Dhows}}. 12. ^{{Citation | contribution-url = http://www.brighthub.com/engineering/marine/articles/57371.aspx | contribution = Dhow Ship – Types | title = Marine engineering | publisher = Bright hub}}. 13. ^{{Citation | contribution-url = http://www.cogandgalleyships.com/blog/496151-ghanjah/ | title = Cog and Galley ships | contribution = Ghanjah}}. 14. ^{{Citation | publisher = Diani beach | url = http://www.dianibeach.co.uk/sailing.htm | place = UK | title = Dhow sailing in Kenya | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://archive.is/20120724202301/http://www.dianibeach.co.uk/sailing.htm | archivedate = 24 July 2012 | df = dmy-all }}. 15. ^{{Citation | title = Oman, a Seafaring Nation | publisher = Ministry of Information | place = Oman | year = 1979}}. 16. ^{{cite web | publisher = Sympatico | last = Xavier | first = Sandy | title = Zaruq | url = http://www3.sympatico.ca/sandyxavier/emirates/adventur/zaruqpic.htm | place = CA | accessdate = 6 September 2012 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20031005041817/http://www3.sympatico.ca/sandyxavier/emirates/adventur/zaruqpic.htm | archivedate = 5 October 2003 | df = dmy-all }} 17. ^{{Citation | first = Thabit AJ | last = Abdullah | title = The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra | publisher = SUNY | series = Social and Economic History of the Middle East | year = 2000 | ISBN = 978-0-7914-4808-3}}. Bibliography
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