Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies

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Publications

Books

Islamic law in circulation: Shāfiʿī texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

Kooria, M.
2022
Cambridge University Press

What is religious authority? Cultivating Islamic communities in Indonesia

Alatas, I. F.
2021
Princeton University Press

Fluid jurisdictions: Colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia

Yahaya, N.
2020
Cornell University Press

A sea of debt: Law and economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950

Bishara, F. A.
2017
Cambridge University Press

Becoming Arab: Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world

Mandal, S. K.
2017
Cambridge University Press

Margins of the market: Trafficking and capitalism across the Arabian Sea

Mathew, J.
2017
University of California Press

The sacred routes of Uyghur history

Thum, R.
2014
Harvard University Press

Journal Articles

Sacred immigrants and travelling rituals: Malabar in the Sufi cosmopolis of the Indian Ocean

Abdul Jaleel, P. K. M.
2025
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 35(2), 349–368

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Hadrami archives of Malabar: Two manuscript collections in Calicut, Southwest India

Abdul Jaleel, P. K. M., & Kooria, M.
2023
Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen, 17(36), 70–151

Review of For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World (W. Jacob, 2019)

Abdul Jaleel, P. K. M., & Anjum, S.
2021
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5(1), 139–142

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Review of What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (S. Ahmed, 2016)

Thum, R.
2018
Islamic Insight, 1, 124–131

Book Chapters

An Oceanic Connection to the World: A View from a Nineteenth-Century Malay Account of Bengal

Mandal, S. K.
2024
In Siti Marina Mohd, Maidin, Oceans That Speak: Islam and the Emergence of the Malay World (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia), 76-81

Recordings

Events

06 Aug 2026 - 07 Aug 2026
Remapping Manuscripts in the Indian Ocean: Textual Cultures, Knowledge Practices, and Alternative Epistemologies
06 Aug 2026
MUHAMMAD ALAGIL ARABIA ASIA STUDIES LECTURE – The Voyage of the “Crooked”: A Global Microhistory | Fahad Ahmad Bishara
19:00 – 20:30