Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia

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ContEntS Acknowledgedments vii The Contributors ix Introduction: Issues and Ideologies in the Study of Regional Muslim Cultures xiii R. Michael Feener 1. Connected Histories? Regional Historiography and Theories of Cultural Contact Between Early South and Southeast Asia 1 Daud Ali 2. Like Banners on the Sea: Muslim Trade Networks and Islamization in Malabar and Maritime Southeast Asia 25 Sebastian R. Prange 3. Circulating Islam: Understanding Convergence and Divergence in the Islamic Traditions of Ma‘bar and Nusantara 48 Torsten Tschacher 4. From Jewish Disciple to Muslim Guru: On Literary and Religious Transformations in Late Nineteenth Century Java 68 Ronit Ricci 5. Wayang Parsi, Bangsawan and Printing: Commercial Cultural Exchange between South Asia and the Malay World 86 Jan van der Putten 6. Religion and the Undermining of British Rule in South and Southeast Asia during the Great War 109 Kees van Dijk 7. The Ahmadiyya Print Jihad in South and Southeast Asia 134 Iqbal Singh Sevea v 8. Making Medinas in the East: Islamist Connections and Progressive Islam 149 Terenjit Sevea 9. Shari‘a-mindedness in the Malay World and the Indian Connection: The Contributions of Nur al-Din al-Raniri and Nik Abdul Aziz bin Haji Nik Mat 175 Peter G. Riddell 10. The Tablighi Jama‘at as Vehicle of (Re)Discovery: Conversion Narratives and the Appropriation of India in the Southeast Asian Tablighi Movement 195 Farish A. Noor 11. From Karachi to Kuala Lumpur: Charting Sufi Identity across the Indian Ocean 219 Robert Rozehnal Index 237 vi Contents ...