Islam and Asia

Chiara Formichi is Associate Professor at Cornell University. Her publications include Islam and the Making of the Nation: S. M. Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia (2012).

• Introduction; 1. Islam across the Oxus (7th–17th centuries); 2. Becoming Muslim (7th–18th centuries; 3. Networks and renewal (18th–19th centuries);4. Pan-Islamism and nationalism (19th–20th centuries);5. Muslims in the nation-state (1940s–1960s); 6. New imaginations of piety (1960s–1990s);7. Islam as resistance; 8. De-centering Islamic authority; 9. Studying Asia and Islam.

'Islam and Asia: A History integrates the expansion of Islam into the millennial trajectory of Asia and its multiple histories. Islamicate cultures of Central, South, South-east, and East Asia are traced with documentary care, abetted by narrative skill, to produce the newest, best introduction to a global civilization rooted and nurtured in Asia.' Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus, Duke University, North Carolina