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The editors are pleased to present the ninth volume of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. This issue contains two original research articles and one conversation. The research articles take novel approaches to history and its applicability to the present. In 'Crafting the Divine Ship,' Maya Vinai, Lakshmi Krishnan, and Bhasura Sangeetika highlight the importance of indigenous traditions as both historical sources and current-day cultural performances. In so doing, they shed new light on indigenous shipbuilding on the South India's Malabar Coastline, which has largely been studied from documentary and archaeological sources. Similarly, in 'Knowledge Without Borders,' Omer Awass counters conventional
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/880/image/coversmallEditorial Introduction2026-03-18text/htmlen-USEditorial Introduction2026-03-182026TWOProject MUSE®39322026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-18Crafting the Divine Ship: Understanding Indigenous Shipbuilding Practices through Performative Traditions
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Shipbuilding is a remarkable testament to human ingenuity and maritime prowess. It reflects the technological advancements and cultural practices of societies that relied on the sea for trade, exploration, and transport. But ships often extended beyond being just vessels – they were also symbols of economic power and cultural exchange, connecting distant lands and people. The naval presence of a kingdom was shaped by the expanse of its maritime trade, its relations with port cities, the magnitude, quality, and uniqueness of its trade items, and the robustness of its ships. The Malabar coastline in present-day southwestern India has been among the most notable shipbuilding zones in the world since before the common
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/880/image/coversmallCrafting the Divine Ship: Understanding Indigenous Shipbuilding Practices through Performative Traditions2026-03-18text/htmlen-USCrafting the Divine Ship: Understanding Indigenous Shipbuilding Practices through Performative Traditions2026-03-182026TWOProject MUSE®1040692026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-18Knowledge without Borders: Epistemic Communities, Dialogically Engaged Discursive Tradition, and the Transmission of Islamic Scholarship in the Eastern Indian Ocean World: Connections between Southeast and Western Asia
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In this article, I explore one of the processes of Islamization in the Indian Ocean world. Several factors facilitated the spread of Islam in this context, including trade, in which Muslim traders carried their religious practices with them and exposed local populations to new beliefs and ways of life that left an imprint on them.2 In addition, the travel of Muslim mystics and missionaries in this space disseminated Islamic ideas and practices.3 The focus of my essay is on another such factor: what I am calling the growth of 'epistemic communities.' An epistemic community exists when a group possesses a shared tradition of knowledge and its transmission across space and time. This article examines the dynamics of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/880/image/coversmallKnowledge without Borders: Epistemic Communities, Dialogically Engaged Discursive Tradition, and the Transmission of Islamic Scholarship in the Eastern Indian Ocean World: Connections between Southeast and Western Asia2026-03-18text/htmlen-USKnowledge without Borders: Epistemic Communities, Dialogically Engaged Discursive Tradition, and the Transmission of Islamic Scholarship in the Eastern Indian Ocean World: Connections between Southeast and Western Asia2026-03-182026TWOProject MUSE®1125072026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-18In Conversation: Alastair McClure on Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922
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To begin with, what inspired you to write Trials of Sovereignty? What are the origins of the project, and how did it evolve over time to become the book as it is published?The book, as I think many first books are, has a relatively long and winding origin story. The seeds of the book began as a PhD thesis, which began about 10 years ago. When I was doing my research, the fields of South Asian and British imperial history were undergoing a very exciting wave of scholarship that was overturning a relatively comfortable consensus about the question of violence in Empire. Emerging scholarship questioned the extent to which violence wasn't a necessarily important site of historical analysis, and was instead making the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/880/image/coversmallIn Conversation: Alastair McClure on Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-19222026-03-18text/htmlen-USIn Conversation: Alastair McClure on Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-19222026-03-182026TWOProject MUSE®361012026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-03-18