Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia Siam All levels/libraries

All levels/libraries

Bringing together work from the fields of psychological anthropology

Raises awareness of Thiland’s rich cultural history and the complexities involved in preserving it

Martin Stuart-Fox is Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia Siam All levels/librariesBy the fourteenth century the Islamic faith had spread via maritime trade routes to Southeast Asia where, over the next seven hundred years, it would have a continuing influence on political life, social customs, and the development of the arts. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints looks at Islam in Southeast Asia during four major eras: its arrival (to 1300), the first flowering of Islamic identity (13001800), the era of imperialism (18001945), and the era