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.
1. A.C.S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop: Introduction. Islam, Trade and Politics Across the Indian Ocean: Imagination and Reality
2. Anthony Reid, Rum and Jawa: The Vicissitudes of Documenting a Long-distance Relationship
The political and economic relationship from the sixteenth to
nineteenth centuries
3. Jorge Santos Alves: From Istanbul with Love: Rumours, Conspiracies and Commercial Competition in Aceh-Ottoman Relations (1550s to 1570s)
4. A.C.S. Peacock: The Economic Relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth Century
5.
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells: Hadhrami Mediators of Ottoman Influence in Southeast Asia
6. Isaac Donoso: The Ottoman Caliphate and Muslims of the Philippine Archipelago during the Early Modern Era
Interactions in the Colonial Era
7. Ismail Hakki Kadi: The Ottomans and Southeast
Asia Prior to the Hamidian Era: A Critique of Colonial Perceptions of Ottoman-Southeast Asian Interaction
8. Ismail Hakki Goksoy: Acehnese Appeals for Ottoman Protection in the Late Nineteenth Century
9. William Clarence-Smith: Middle Eastern States and the Philippines under Early American
Rule, 1898-1919
10. Amrita Malhi: "We Hope to Raise the Bendera Stambul": British Forward Movement and the Caliphate on the Malay Peninsula
11. Chiara Formichi: Indonesian Readings of Turkish History (1890s-1940s)
Cultural and intellectual influences
12. Vladimir Braginsky:
Representation of the Turkic-Turkish Theme in Traditional Malay Literature, with Special Reference to the Works of the Fourteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries
13. Oman Fathurahman: New Textual Evidence for Intellectual and Religious Connections between the Ottomans and Aceh
14. Ali Akbar:
The Influence of Ottoman Qur'ans in Southeast Asia through the Ages
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Andrew Peacock is at the University of St. Andrews, UK. Annabel Teh Gallop is with the British Library, UK.
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
The Frontiers of the Ottoman World - Edited by A.C.S. Peacock
