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..., including the complex relations between diasporas and host countries, their majority populations, and the identity politics involved in these processes. Based on the case studies assembled in this special section, the article contrasts internal divisions in the Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese diasporas...

...Martin Slama The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial...

... the existential worries and moral concerns of lower-class Muslims. Under the leadership of Habib Rizieq Syihab, an Indonesian of Hadhrami descent, the FPI attracted particular attention because of its use of violence against minority groups and so-called immoral businesses, such as cafés, bars, and nightclubs...

...Huub de Jonge After the Japanese occupation of the Netherlands East Indies, the Hadhramis living in the archipelago were, at least initially, treated as untrustworthy by the new colonizers. At the same time they were cut off from their homeland Hadhramaut and had to reconsider their relationships...

...Sumit K. Mandal This article explores how Arabness has been rediscovered in the Malay world—in this instance Indonesia and Malaysia and, to some extent, Singapore—from the early 1990s to the present. Arabs, mostly of Hadhrami descent, are an intimate part of local culture, given the shared faith...

...Michael Gilsenan This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations...

... Gilsenan Michael Gadassik Alla rently working on Hadhrami migrations to to 1850–1980. Asia, migrations Southeast...

... work, but by the late lgthcentury had become traders and became his main competitor causing an irrecon- and informal bankers in their own right.” In appear- cilable rift in the family. The grandfather, however, ance it seems that the Hadhrami were modeling their never made his own father’s...

... and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . Clarence-Smith William Gervaise . “ Hadhrami Entrepreneurs in the Malay World, 1750–1940 .” In Hadhrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean...

... 2006). Reshaping Urban Cairo’s Egypt, Modern of Culture Consumer is recentpubliocation most Her Egypt. in culture consumer and Asia, Southeast in diaspora Hadhrami the Asia, Southeast and East Middle the between networks cultural and religious the include...

...); Jona- ment in Indonesia, 1900 – ​1942 (Oxford: Oxford Hadhrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in thon Glassman, Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebel- University Press, 1973) mentions reformist op- the Indian Ocean, 1750s – ​1960s (Leiden: Brill, lion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili position...

... forged and mediated by connected histories. However, Green’s conception the Hadhrami diaspora. And while Tagliacozzo’s of the oceanic turn goes well beyond encouraging account acknowledges and reflects on the impor- cross-­regional comparisons and connections...

... several continents.   cal orientations of some Hadhramis in Indone- The potentials of either promoting or prevent- of sia during the past decade, particularly of those ing specifically violent developments in a society...

..., a certain distance to its shores. While Allen him- for example, in Engseng Ho’s work on Hadhrami self distinguished different layers of unity that re- mobility, Sebouh Aslanian’s study of the social lives sulted from processes of migration and the spread of Armenian merchants, or Roxani Margariti’s...

... a 1856 ria n .G lrneSih(edn .J Brill, J. E. (Leiden: 67–81. 1997), Clarence-Smith G. W. and Freitag oei h oiisadSceyo ooilIndia, Colonial of Society and in Politics 1750s–1950s,” the in Hadhrami “The Role Khalidi, O. see period, this Dec- during the can...

... have explained, is the clear and con- ity and the cosmopolitan character of Zanzibar scious decision made by individuals to join a spe- attracted Omanis, Hadhramis, and Indians.13 The cific one.12 However, it should not be assumed that presence of these diasporic communities and their Ibadis...

... Middle East also allows us to reckon and, in so doing, demonstrates the impact of Af- with such developments as the circulatory flows of rican religious and cultural practices on the non- the Hadhrami diaspora, the “Arabic cosmopolis” African peoples of this ethnically heterogeneous connecting Arabia...

...” ; and Pearson, The Indian Ocean . An important exception is Dua, “Dhow Encounters.” 23. Engseng Ho's brilliant work shows how the rise of nation-states made the once mobile Hadhrami diaspora anomalous. He contends that with the rise of nation-states after the Second World War, “unending cycles...

..., recent research has demonstrated how even such profoundly “peasant” problems dovetailed from pilgrimage connections to the Middle East. In this regard, historians have especially highlighted the checkered career of the scholar and creole “Indian Arab,” Saiyid Fadl (1824–1901). A Hadhrami saiyid...