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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
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Notes on Contributors
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Acknowledgementsxiii
Maps
The Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth
century
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The Ottoman Empire and colonial Southeast Asia, c. 1900
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1. Islam, Trade and Politics Across the Indian Ocean: Imagination
and Reality
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Ali Akbar works at Bayt al-Quran and Museum Istiqlal, Jakarta. He
has conducted research on manuscript and printed Qurans in Indonesian
collections since 2003 through his work at the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
His publications include Tracing Individual Styles: Islamic Calligraphy
from Nusantara, Lektur (2007), and as co-author, The Art of the Quran
in Banten: Calligraphy and Illumination, Archipel (2006). His blog (in
Indonesian) on the Quran in Southeast Asia can be found at www.qurannusantara.blogspot.com.
Jorge Santos Alves is Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences,
Universidade Catlica Portuguesa, Lisbon, and Coordinator of the Asian
Studies Consortium. His research and teaching interests are mainly in the
history of Southeast Asia, China (Macau) and the Indian Ocean area, and
on the history of the Portuguese in Asia. His publications as editor include
Portugal and Indonsia: History of the Political and Diplomatic Relations
(15091974), 2 vols (Macao and Lisbon, 2013); Ferno Mendes Pinto and
the Peregrinao: Studies, Restored Text, Notes and Indexes, 4 vols (Lisbon,
2010); and Macau: The First Century of an International Port (Lisbon,
2007).
Vladimir Braginsky is Professor Emeritus and Professorial Research
Associate at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He was Professor of
Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia at SOAS from 1993 to 2010. His
main fields of research are Malay and Indonesian literatures, Sufism in the
Malay archipelago, and comparative literature. His major publications include
Images of Nusantara in Russian Literature (Leiden, 1999) (co-authored with
E. M. Diakonova); The Comparative Study of Traditional Asian Literatures
(Richmond VA, 2001); The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature (Leiden,
2004); and And Sails the Boat Downstream: Malay Sufi Poems of the Boat
(Leiden, 2007).
William Gervase Clarence-Smith is Professor of the Economic History of
Asia and Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, where he teaches Southeast Asian history. He is chief editor of the
Journal of Global History. He is author of Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
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Annabel Teh Gallop is Lead Curator for Southeast Asian studies at the
British Library. Her main research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters,
documents and seals, and the art of the Quran in Southeast Asia. Recent
publications include Lasting Impressions: Seals from the Islamic World,
co-authored with Venetia Porter (Kuala Lumpur, 2012), and Gold, Silver
and Lapis Lazuli: Royal Letters from Aceh in the Seventeenth Century, in
Mapping the Acehnese Past (Leiden, 2011). With Andrew Peacock, she was
co-director of the British Academy-funded research project Islam, Trade and
Politics Across the Indian Ocean.
smail Hakk Gksoy is Professor of Islamic history at the Theology Faculty
of Suleyman Demirel University in Isparta, Turkey. His main research
interest is the Islamic history of Southeast Asia and the contemporary Muslim
world. He has written widely on Islam in Southeast Asia and contributed
to the Turkish Encyclopaedia of Islam. His major books in Turkish include
Gneydou Asyada Osmanl-Trk Tesirleri (Isparta, 2004). Articles in English
include The Policy of Dutch Government towards Islam in Indonesia, The
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (2002), Dutch Policy towards
the Indonesian Haj, Islam Arastirmalari Dergisi / Turkish Journal of Islamic
Studies (1998) and OttomanAceh Relations as Documented in Turkish
Sources, in Mapping the Acehnese Past (Leiden, 2011).
smail Hakk Kad is Assistant Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University
where he teaches economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire. His
research focuses on various aspects of OttomanDutch interaction in the early
modern period as well as on Ottoman interaction with Southeast Asia during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published chapters in books
include On the Edges of an Ottoman World: Non-Muslim Ottoman Merchants
in Amsterdam, in The Ottoman World (London, 2012); Writing History: The
Acehnese Embassy to Istanbul, 18491852 (with A.C.S. Peacock and A.T.
Gallop), in Mapping the Acehnese Past (Leiden, 2011); and A Silence of the
Guilds? Some Characteristics of Izmirs Craftsmen Organizations in the 18th
and Early 19th Century, in Ottoman Izmir: Studies in honour of Alexander
H. De Groot (Leiden, 2007).
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells formerly held the Chair of Asian History
at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and is currently affiliated to
the Centre of South Asian Studies and Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
Research into the Hadhramis of Southeast Asia has grown out of her long
interest in trade flows in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian natural
resources and state formation. Her publications include The Southeast Asian
Port and Polity, co-edited with John Villiers (Singapore, 1990), and Nature
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