From Anatolia to Aceh: Book Info

Title: From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia

Editors: A. C. S. Peacock & Annabel Teh Gallop

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015

Contributors: A.C.S. Peacock, Annabel Teh Gallop, Anthony Reid, Jorge Santos Alves, Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, Isaac Donoso, Īsmail Hakki Kadi, Īsmail Hakki Göksoy, William G. Clarence-Smith, Amrita Malhi, Chiara Formichi, Vladimir Braginsky, Oman Fathurahman, and Ali Akbar.
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Source of summary: http://www.amazon.com/From-Anatolia-Aceh-Southeast-Proceedings/dp/0197265812

Southeast Asia has long been connected by trade, religion and political links to the wider world across the Indian Ocean, and especially to the Middle East through the faith of Islam. However, little attention has been paid to the ties between Muslim Southeast Asia - encompassing the modern nations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and the southern parts of Thailand and the Philippines - and the greatest Middle Eastern power, the Ottoman empire.
The first direct political contact took place in the 16th century, when Ottoman records confirm that gunners and gunsmiths were sent to Aceh in Sumatra to help fight against the Portuguese domination of the pepper trade. In the intervening centuries, the main conduit for contact between was the annual Hajj pilgrimage, and many Malay pilgrims from Southeast Asia spent long periods of study in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were under Ottoman control from 1517 until the early 20th century. During the period of European colonial expansion in the 19th century, once again Malay states turned to Istanbul for help. It now appears that these demands for intervention from Southeast Asia may even have played an important role in the development of the Ottoman policy of Pan-Islamism, positioning the Ottoman emperor as Caliph and leader of Muslims worldwide and promoting Muslim solidarity.  

The papers in this volume represent the first attempt to bring together research on all aspects of the relationship between the Ottoman world and Southeast Asia - political, economic, religious and intellectual - much of it based on documents newly discovered in archives in Istanbul.
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As part of my contribution, I wrote an article for this book entitled: "new textual evidence for intellectual and religious connections between the Ottomans and Aceh" (pp. 293-309). Due to the terms and conditions applied to this publication, however, I will not share the printed PDF file of my contribution here. For those who are interested to know all titles of the articles included in the book, you may read it here. I also enclose the final version of my article before submitting to the editors (please refer to the original pages for quotation).