A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial
expansion during the early modern period “A tour de force offering the reader the best study …

For centuries, trading companies and colonial officials have sought to manipulate
indigenous Asian kingdoms by banishing recalcitrant elites, thereby discouraging resistance …

No matter where they are, Muslims around the world face the Kaʿba in Mecca during
prayer. Yet the meaning of facing Mecca has not always and everywhere been the same. In …

76–77. 2. The village in the environs of Qatn was founded by members of the Ba Bakr clan,
who had been expelled by the Kathiris of Sayʾun in 1867. See ʿAbd al-Rahman b. ʿUbayd …

This short article presents provisional findings that shed new light on both the cultural
geography of Islam in Thailand, and northern extremities of the Malay world. An analysis of …

Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual
throughout its history. But literary histories of the region often indicate otherwise. In the early …

This article analyzes stereotypes of Muslims that have recurred in Sinhala literature over the
past seven centuries. This temporal span includes (1) a precolonial time when Muslims were …

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together
perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and …

The article explores five Maulid Syaraf al-Anām ('The birth of the best of mankind')
manuscripts produced in the Indonesian-Malay world. The five manuscripts all include the …

Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions
to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living …