Becoming Arab - Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. A Creole Malay World: 1. Lord Sayyids; Part II. Colonial Transformation: 2. From sea to land; 3. Categorisation and control; 4. Scholarship and surveillance; Part III. Modern Identity: 5. Turning to Istanbul; 6. Sayyids remade; 7. The contested state of modern Arab identity; Conclusion.

About the author

Sumit K. Mandal is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, History, and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. A historian interested in the transnational architecture of Asian societies, Mandal does research on Muslim societies in the Malay world – in relation to the Indian Ocean – as well as contemporary Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. His writing has appeared in Modern Asian Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Citizenship Studies. Previously, he worked at the National University of Malaysia and Humboldt University in Berlin, and held fellowships at New York University and Kyoto University, Japan. He is on the editorial board of Philological Encounters.

Summary

For all readers seeking a fresh perspective on how Asians negotiated racial categorisation and control under European colonial rule. Asians - Arabs in this instance - did not acquiesce but drew on a history of integration in the Malay world, connections to the Ottoman Empire, and modern organisations and schools.

Product details

• Authors: Sumit K. Mandal, Mandal Sumit K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781316647493
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64749-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Asian Connections; Asian Connections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, South East Asia, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Islamic Life & Practice, Islamic life and practice, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy