... (Sayyid Hussin Ali, “Pertubuhan Bahasa dan Sastera Melayu Di Singapura Selepas Perang Dunia II” [“The Growth of Malay Language and Literature after the Second World War”], Bahasa , II, 2, (Singapore, March 1960), p. 8, n.5). Penang at this time had the Muslim Recreation Club, and at least one other...

...Irene A. Bierman Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World . By Anthony Welch . Austin : University of Texas Press (in cooperation with The Asia Society), 1979 . 216 pp. Plates, Bibliography. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 834 JOURNAL...

...Mesrob Vartavarian Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World . By Oliver Charbonneau . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xvi, 282 pp. ISBN: 9781501750724 (cloth). American Datu: John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim...

... identity. All Muslims in China and in the world were referred to as hui, huihui, huimin, huijiao ren , or huizu . To avoid confusion, in this article I follow Jonathan Lipman, author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 1997...

...Frederick Mathewson Denny Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway . By Akbar S. Ahmed . London : BBC Books , 1993 . 224 pp. 31 color plates. £16.99; $24.95 (cloth). Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World . Hugh Purcell, Executive Producer, Akbar Ahmed...

...Ayesha Jalal Origins of Muslim Consciousness in India: A World-System Perspective . By Syed Nesar Ahmad . Foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein. New York : Greenwood Press , 1991 . xv, 311 pp. $47.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 944 THE JOURNAL...

...John Tseh-han Chen China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II . By Kelly A. Hammond . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 314 pp. ISBN: 9781469659640 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Kelly...

... to Muslim religiosity and Indian Muslims’ extraterritorial sympathies toward the caliphate and the Muslim world. Pigeonholing the entire thought of Lajpat Rai as “Hindu nationalism” obscures a historical-intellectual juncture when a Hindu political figure like him enthusiastically supported pan-Islamism...

...Julia Day Howell Abstract Like other parts of the muslim world, Indonesia has experienced an Islamic revival since the 1970s (cf. Hefner 1997; Jones 1980; Liddle 1996, 622–25; Muzaffar 1986; Schwarz 1994, 173–76; Tessler and Jesse 1996). To date, representations of Indonesia's Islamic revival have...

... and to the Muslim world community. Although he is adept at using or reciting the Qur'anic Arabic needed for daily prayer, the profession of faith, and the verbal exchanges that bond Muslims with each other, Soeharto is a decidedly unpracticed calligrapher when it comes to Arabic orthography. Copyright ©...

...” to the making of contemporary forms of Muslim identity. In contrast, this article builds on historical accounts of premodern forms of Muslim cosmopolitanism, notably Engseng Ho's study of Hadrami Muslim scholars who saw themselves as active creators of a universal world structured around the transregional...

... for Hyderabad a future that never came to fruition. By locating India in a trans-Islamic pattern of engaging Japan, the essay shows how, between the Russo-Japanese War and the Second World War, Japan provided newly globalized intellectuals with a template for empowering Muslim-ruled polities that either never...

..., none have been able to set a conceptual framework for "thinking about Muslim politics." Dale Eickelman, professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College, and James Piscatori, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, have combined their vast knowledge of the Muslim world to emphasize why we need...

... The encounters between the West and the Muslim world, the stories and beliefs about each other that these encounters have generated, and the self-definition in response to these beliefs as women have articulated and fought for their rights over the past 500 years are documented in Elora Shahabuddin's Sisters...

...). It would be dif cult to overestimate the signi cance of John L. Esposito and John O. Voll s intellectually expansive yet thoroughly accessible volume. This is especially so at a time when the architects of American policy pursue strategies in the Muslim world and at home that are seriously exacerbating...

... "To Be a Muslim;" treats three topics religious life, the arts of Islam, and Muslim society in the modern world. The first section gives a sympathetic and marvelously illustrated view of the core features of the religion: the central place of the Quran, life at the mosques and shrines, the stages of life...

... surgery. A scholar of South Asian and Islamic history, Professor Kozlowski was an international authority on Muslim philanthropic endowments in both British India and modern Pakistan and India, an innovator in teaching the history of world civilizations, and a public figure speaking to the greater Chicago...

... in the Muslim world, relative lateness of its emergence in Islamic history, and moderateness of its political outlook may acount for this academic neglect. More specifically, Clifford Geertz's work {The Religion ofJava, New York: Free Press of Glencoe, I960) has had a discouraging effect upon scholarly...

... interpretations. And this is no doubt on account of two factors. The first is that the two overarching themes that animate the work are the impact of the conquest on the Muslim world, and the subsequent consequences of Mongol rule. Yet, even more important in shaping the book's narrative drive is the fact...

.... Worse, the single sentence in the preface that introduces the articles is both misleading and, to South Asian Muslims, irritating. Thus, to say that all the contributions "address themselves to the peculiar problems facing Islamic minorities in a peripheral area of the Muslim world" is not accurate...