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Indian Ocean World
May 12, 2022
Islamic Law in Circulation
Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Mahmood Kooria
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Kelvin Ng
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean …
Indian Ocean World
May 11, 2022
Dockside Reading
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr
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Kelvin Ng
In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British …
Indian Ocean World
July 30, 2021
What Is Religious Authority?
Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
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Kelvin Ng
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia (Princeton UP, 2021) by Ismail Fajrie Alatas draws on groundbreaking anthropological insights to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing …
Indian Ocean World
April 8, 2021
Empire of Convicts
Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
Anand A. Yang
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Kelvin Ng
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia …
Indian Ocean World
April 5, 2021
Fleeting Agencies
A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Arunima Datta
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Kelvin Ng
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South …
Indian Ocean World
April 2, 2021
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds
Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran
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Kelvin Ng
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge, 2020), coedited by Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'weno, and Neelima Jeychandran, breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It …
Indian Ocean World
February 10, 2021
Miracles and Material Life
Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
Teren Sevea
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Kelvin Ng
In Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2020), Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the …
Indian Ocean World
December 28, 2020
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
J. Daniel Elam
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Kelvin Ng
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham University Press, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocates collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early …
Indian Ocean World
December 7, 2020
A World at Sea
Maritime Practices and Global History
Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
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Kelvin Ng
L. Benton and N. Perl-Rosenthal's A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020) consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of …
Indian Ocean World
November 16, 2020
Fluid Jurisdictions
Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
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Kelvin Ng
Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) by Prof. Nurfadzilah Yahaya is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab …
Indian Ocean World
November 12, 2020
Waves Across the South
A New History of Revolution and Empire
Sujit Sivasundaram
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Kelvin Ng
In Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire (William Collins, 2020), Sujit Sivasundaram brings together far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research …
Indian Ocean World
November 9, 2020
Pearls, People, and Power
Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds
Pedro Machado
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Kelvin Ng
Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds (Ohio University Press, 2020), co-edited by Pedro Machado, Joseph Christensen, Steve Mullins) is the first book to examine the trade, distribution …
Indian Ocean World
October 15, 2020
For God or Empire
Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World
Wilson Chacko Jacob
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Sayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life—one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or …
Indian Ocean World
October 1, 2020
Transregional Trade and Traders
Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900
E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami (eds.)
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Kelvin Ng
Blessed with numerous safe harbors, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also …
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