His current research is concerned with aspects of the diaspora of Arab families from the Hadhramaut (south Yemen) into South-East Asia over the past 100 years.ġ Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe Shopping for Allies Czeslaw Tubilewicz 2 The Asia-Europe Meeting The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism Alfredo C. His books include Recognizing Islam (1982/2000) and Lords of the Lebanese Marches (1996). Michael Gilsenan is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at New York University. His books include Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, 2 vols (1988–93), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other Histories of Sumatra (2004) and, as editor, The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia (1993), and Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem (2006). Anthony Reid was founding Director of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2002), having previously been Professor of Southeast Asian History at UCLA (1999–2002) and ANU (1987–99). The evidence presented here suggests that pluralism has long been a fact of life in this region and has always outlasted attempts, such as those of contemporary political Islamists, to deny its legitimacy. This book explores and analyses some of the ways these debates have developed, and continue to develop, in South and South-East Asia. Asian Muslims have argued for many centuries about the legitimacy of non-Islamic government over Muslims and about the place of non-Muslim peoples, polities and rights under Islamic governance. Pluralism in Asia is not simply a contemporary development of secular democracies but also a long-tested pattern based on both principle and pragmatism. This book places the debate in the context of South and South-East Asia – not only the home of the majority of the world’s Muslims, but also Islam’s historic laboratory in dealing with religious pluralism. Some radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.
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