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Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade, and Islam in Southeast Asia

Huub de Jonge and Nico Kaptein, eds. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002. 246 pages. This collection of essays is a spin-off of a workshop held in December 1997, which was jointly organized by the venerable Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology) and the more recently established International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. Both are important resource centers for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia and are closely connected with Leiden University, which has a formidable reputation as a centuries-old center of learning in Islamic and Asian studies. Publications like the present one show that academic institutions with roots in the colonial past and which were once parts of the now much-criticized scholarly tradition of Orientalism can reinvent themselves and continue to make valuable ontributions to the study of non-western cultures. Transcending Borders focuses on the phenomenon of Arab settlement in Southeast Asia. Although the role of these migrants in the Islamization of the MalayIndonesian archipelago has long been acknowledged, questions pertaining to their integration into Southeast Asian society and the resulting impact on their ethnic identity have received far less attention. In fact, the upsurge in research into these aspects is barely a decade old. However, the most recent developments in Muslim Southeast Asia will certainly keep that interest alive, because some of the more militant key players in Southeast Asian Islamic revivalism are themselves of Hadrami or southern Arabian descent.

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The books 10 articles approach the study of Arab migration and settlement from historical, sociological, anthropological, and Islamological perspectives. However, the editors have taken care to ensure that these different approaches provide intersecting images of the Arab presence in Southeast Asia. In their introductory survey, de Jonge and Kaptein draw attention to a few key aspects, such as the significance of the migrants economic success and knowledge of Islam for establishing close (marital) relations with local dynasties, the marked drop in migration following Europes expansion in Southeast Asia, and a shift from onward migration via earlier settlement in the Indian subcontinent to a direct movement (almost exclusively of men) from contemporary Yemens Hadramaut region to maritime Southeast Asia after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Some of the contributing scholars have themselves produced important publications in the same field. William Clarence-Smith and Ulrike Freitags Hadrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s (1997) and Sumit Kumar Mandals 1994 dissertation, Finding Their Place: A History of Arabs in Java and under Dutch Rule, 1800-1924 are landmark contributions to the study of Arabs in Southeast Asia. These recent publications come out after a century-long lull since L.W.C. van den Bergs Le Hadramout et les colonies arabes dans larchipel indien (1886) and Christiaan Snouck Hurgronjes reports and studies during his stint as the senior government adviser on Islamic affairs in the Dutch East Indies (1889-1906) and his tenure as a professor of Arabic and Islam at Leiden University (1906-36). Hurgronjes significance for shaping Dutch perceptions of Islam is illustrated by de Jonges own essay, which focuses on the scholars writings about the Hadrami communities and their connections with pan-Islamism. De Jonge draws attention to a strange ambiguity in Snoucks writings: His objective and empathetic reports on the resident Hadrami communities, as well as his criticism of their repression by the Dutch authorities, contrast strangely with his virulent advisories to stamp out any sign of pan-Islamist activism.

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