Author: Awnsham ChurchillPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120616448
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A Collection of Voyages and Travels
Author: Awnsham ChurchillPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120616448
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated Out of Foreign Languages and Now First Publish'd in English,... In Four Volumes. With a General Preface,... The Whole Illustrated with a Great Number of Useful Maps, and Cuts All Engraved on Copper,...
Author: A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English: The history of the provinces of Paraguay, Tucuman, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Guaira, and Urvaica. And something of the kingdom of Chili in South America
Author: A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes
Author: A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English
Author: Awnsham ChurchillForging Islamic Power and Place
Author: Francis R. BradleyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824856996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Forging Islamic Power and Place charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh Dā’ūd bin ‘Abd Allāh al-Faṭānī regrouped in Mecca. In the years that followed, al-Faṭānī composed more than forty works that came to form the basis for a new, text-based type of Islamic practice. Via a network of scholars, students, and scribes, al-Faṭānī’s writings made their way back to Southeast Asia, becoming the core texts of emerging pondok (Islamic schools) throughout the region. Islamic scholars thus came to be the primary power brokers in the construction of a new moral community, setting forth an intellectual wave that spurred cultural identity, literacy, and a religious practice that grew ever more central to daily life. In Forging Islamic Power and Place, Francis R. Bradley analyzes the important role of this vibrant Patani knowledge network in the formation of Islamic institutions of learning in Southeast Asia. He makes use of an impressive range of sources, including official colonial documents, traveler accounts, missionary writings, and above all a trove of handwritten manuscripts in Malay and Arabic, what remains of one of the most fertile zones of knowledge production anywhere in the Islamic world at the time. Writing against prevailing notions of Southeast Asia as the passive recipient of the Islamic traditions of the Middle East, Bradley shows how a politically marginalized community engineered its own cultural renaissance via the moral virility of the Islamic scholarly tradition and the power of the written word. He highlights how, in an age of rising colonial power, these knowledge producers moved largely unnoticed and unhindered between Southeast Asia and the Middle East carrying out sweeping cultural and religious change. His focus on Thailand’s so-called “deep south,” which has been marginalized in scholarly studies until recent times, helps lay the groundwork for a new generation of scholarship on the region and furthers our understanding of the present-day crisis in southern Thailand. The study of Islam in Southeast Asia has been most often relegated to the realm of religious studies, and historians have considered the development of the nation as the single-most important historiographical problem in the region. By focusing on the role of human agency and the logistics of knowledge transmission, this book transforms our understanding of the long and complex history of the flow of religious knowledge between the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Through the Porthole
Author: University of St. Thomas (Houston, Tex.). Art DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand
Author: Anthony ReidPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9971696355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
At the heart of the on-going armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom "since time immemorial," Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when the Sultanate of Patani was an independent, prosperous trading state and a renowned center for Islamic education and scholarship in Southeast Asia — a time before it was defeated, broken up, and brought under the control of the Thai state. While still influential, in recent years these diametrically opposed views of the past have begun to make way for more nuanced and varied interpretations. Patani scholars, intellectuals and students now explore their history more freely and confidently than in the past, while the once-rigid Thai nationalist narrative is open to more pluralistic interpretations. There is growing interaction and dialogue between historians writing in Thai, Malay and English, and engagement with sources and scholarship in other languages, including Chinese and Arabic. In The Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, 13 scholars who have worked on this sensitive region evaluate the current state of current historical writing about the Patani Malays of southern Thailand. The essays in this book demonstrate that an understanding of the conflict must take into account the historical dimensions of relations between Patani and the Thai kingdom, and the ongoing influence of these perceptions on Thai state officials, militants, and the local population.
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Author: John Russell SmithA dictionary of books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.