Becoming Arab

Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23458047
AutoresSumit K Mandal (0000-0002-3041-7486, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Fecha de publicación2017-11-16
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaBecoming Arab (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108164931
OpenAlexW4233442973
ISBN9781108164931
Open LibraryOL34560621M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations, schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism, advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its birth.

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Creole language · Egalitarianism · Empire · Identity (music) · Islam · Linguistics · Malay · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Arabs · foreign countries · Malaysia · Muslims · Social conditions

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