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

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Label

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

Title remainder

Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia

Statement of responsibility

edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop

Creator

• Peacock, A. C. S., (Andrew C. S)

Contributor

• Gallop, Annabel Teh
• British Academy

Editor

• Peacock, A. C. S., (Andrew C. S)
• Gallop, Annabel Teh

Issuing body

• British Academy

Subject

• Southeast Asia -- History
• Southeast Asia -- Relations -- Turkey
• Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Turkey -- Relations -- Southeast Asia
• Panislamism

Language

eng

Summary

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. --Provided by publisher

Member of

• Proceedings of the British Academy, 200

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

956.015

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Proceedings of the British Academy,

Series volume

200