Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is senior professor in the Humanities Department at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona). His main lines of research deal with historical anthropology, chronicles of the Indies, and early modern Spanish colonialism, with a special focus on the ecclesiastical history of the Marianas and the Philippines. João Vicente Melo is a Ramón y Cajal fellow at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. He has published widely on cross-cultural diplomacy, religious missions, and the diplomatic practices of the Portuguese Empire in Asia.

• ContentsPreliminary NoteAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 Jesuits and Islam in the Portuguese Estado the Índia3 Diplomacy and Proselytizing in the Deccan: The Jesuit Missions to Bijapur (c.1561–1667)4 Hoping for a New Constantine: the Jesuit Mission to the Mughal Court (1580–1773)5 Jesuit–Islam Interaction in the Southern Philippines and the Moluccas (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)6 Mindanao, Sulu, and the Spanish–Moro Wars (Seventeenth Century)7 Mindanao, Sulu, and the Spanish–Moro Wars (Eighteenth Century)8 ConclusionBibliography