East by Mid-East
Studies in Cultural, Historical and Strategic Connectivities
Edited by
Anchi Hoh [+–]
Library of Congress
Anchi Hoh is Assistant to the Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Chief Executive Director for the Asian Division Friends Society. She is currently a Fellow of the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Dr. Hoh is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) and Co-Chair of the Biannual International Forum on Asia-Middle Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her most recent publication is the translation of a collection of short stories from Arabic to English, Departure of the Sea by Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, which offers insights into the Kuwaiti society and an Arab view on terrorism.
Brannon M Wheeler [+–]
United States Naval Academy
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Brannon Wheeler is a Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis where he was the founding Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago after having received a BA in Religion and History at Pitzer College, studying with Carl Ernst at Pomona College. He is the author and editor of nine books including Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006). He is currently finishing a book-length project on camel sacrifice and martyrdom in Islam.
It is almost universally recognized that the Middle East and Asia constitute two of the most important regions today when thinking about international relations, energy and sustainable development, economics, religion, culture, and the so called ‘clash’ or ‘dialogue’ of civilizations. Both the Middle East and Asia are, independent of one another, significant sources of natural resources, military conflict, cultural production, human migration and political attention. Despite the high level of international interest in the Middle East and Asia, there have been relatively few publications focused on the interactions of the two regions and how the two regions are inextricably linked in the economic and political impact they have on the rest of the world.
East by Mid-East provides a multi-disciplinary and trans-regional approach to the historical roots and continued development of ties between the Middle East and Asia, from Muslim-Confucian relations to nuclear technology exchange between China and Saudi Arabia. The contributors include academics, policy makers and consultants, leaders in international business, law professionals and military.
Series: Comparative Islamic Studies
Table of Contents
Prelims
Contributors [+–] vii
Library of Congress
Anchi Hoh is Assistant to the Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Chief Executive Director for the Asian Division Friends Society. She is currently a Fellow of the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Dr. Hoh is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) and Co-Chair of the Biannual International Forum on Asia-Middle Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her most recent publication is the translation of a collection of short stories from Arabic to English, Departure of the Sea by Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, which offers insights into the Kuwaiti society and an Arab view on terrorism.
United States Naval Academy
Brannon Wheeler is a Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis where he was the founding Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago after having received a BA in Religion and History at Pitzer College, studying with Carl Ernst at Pomona College. He is the author and editor of nine books including Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006). He is currently finishing a book-length project on camel sacrifice and martyrdom in Islam.
It is almost universally recognized that the Middle East and Asia constitute two of the most important regions today when thinking about international relations, energy and sustainable development, economics, religion, culture, and the so called ‘clash’ or ‘dialogue’ of civilizations. Both the Middle East and Asia are, independent of one another, significant sources of natural resources, military conflict, cultural production, human migration and political attention. Despite the high level of international interest in the Middle East and Asia, there have been relatively few publications focused on the interactions of the two regions and how the two regions are inextricably linked in the economic and political impact they have on the rest of the world. East by Mid-East provides a multi-disciplinary and trans-regional approach to the historical roots and continued development of ties between the Middle East and Asia, from Muslim-Confucian relations to nuclear technology exchange between China and Saudi Arabia. The contributors include academics, policy makers and consultants, leaders in international business, law professionals and military.
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Library of Congress
Anchi Hoh is Assistant to the Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Chief Executive Director for the Asian Division Friends Society. She is currently a Fellow of the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Dr. Hoh is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) and Co-Chair of the Biannual International Forum on Asia-Middle Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her most recent publication is the translation of a collection of short stories from Arabic to English, Departure of the Sea by Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, which offers insights into the Kuwaiti society and an Arab view on terrorism.
United States Naval Academy
Brannon Wheeler is a Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis where he was the founding Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago after having received a BA in Religion and History at Pitzer College, studying with Carl Ernst at Pomona College. He is the author and editor of nine books including Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006). He is currently finishing a book-length project on camel sacrifice and martyrdom in Islam.
It is almost universally recognized that the Middle East and Asia constitute two of the most important regions today when thinking about international relations, energy and sustainable development, economics, religion, culture, and the so called ‘clash’ or ‘dialogue’ of civilizations. Both the Middle East and Asia are, independent of one another, significant sources of natural resources, military conflict, cultural production, human migration and political attention. Despite the high level of international interest in the Middle East and Asia, there have been relatively few publications focused on the interactions of the two regions and how the two regions are inextricably linked in the economic and political impact they have on the rest of the world. East by Mid-East provides a multi-disciplinary and trans-regional approach to the historical roots and continued development of ties between the Middle East and Asia, from Muslim-Confucian relations to nuclear technology exchange between China and Saudi Arabia. The contributors include academics, policy makers and consultants, leaders in international business, law professionals and military.
Cultural and Historical Connections
State University of New York,
Stony Brook
Stony Brook
In this chapter, the author discusses the way the Muslim appropriation of the Confucian thought, becoming the Muslim Confucians. The work of translating the Muslim teachings into Chinese was firstly achieved by Liu Shi, a Sufi author, one of many Sufi authors who were known for their ability with language and imagery.
3. Xinjiang as Portrayed in Qing’s Historical Gazetteers Housed at the Library of Congress [+–] 25 – 66
Library of Congress
Anchi Hoh is Assistant to the Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Chief Executive Director for the Asian Division Friends Society. She is currently a Fellow of the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Dr. Hoh is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) and Co-Chair of the Biannual International Forum on Asia-Middle Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her most recent publication is the translation of a collection of short stories from Arabic to English, Departure of the Sea by Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, which offers insights into the Kuwaiti society and an Arab view on terrorism.
This chapter outlines a general portrait of the region currently known as Xinjiang using the Qing’s gazetteers collection housed at the Library of Congress from three dimensions: the administrative system, surveys of national resources, and the Qing’s attitude toward economy, ethnicity, and cultural and religious affairs.
4. The Cosmopolitan Canopy of East Maritime SE Asia: Minority citizenship in the Phil-Indo Archipelago [+–] 67 – 104
Duke University
Bruce B. Lawrence is Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus at Duke University. A specialist in Indo-Persian culture and the comparative study of religious movements, he has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited sixteen books. They include translations, monographs and trade books, the most recent being The Qur’an: A Biography (2006) and, with Aisha Karim, On Violence: A Reader (2007).
In this chapter, the major focus is on the Philippines and Indonesia as connected neighbors, to which the author stresses the ongoing importance of their pre-national status as a continuum, a geo-cultural formation consisting of islands not separated, but connected, by water.
Transnational Allegiances and Local Culture in Asia
5. Cosmopolitan Muslim Intellectuals and the Mediation of Cultural Islam in Indonesia [+–] 105 – 134
King’s College London
In this chapter, the author focuses on the research into the topic of “new Muslim intellectualism,” which has been steadily evolving over the last half a century.
6. Emerging Islamic-Confucian Axis in the Virtual Ummah: Connectivity and Constraint in the Contemporary China [+–] 135 – 152
Hong Kong Institute of Education
This chapter considers the neglected but emerging trend of the Chinese-speaking Islamic websites in the midst of growing autonomy of civil social movements as well as the state surveillance.
7. The Middle East and the Philippines: Transnational Linkages, Labor Migration and the Remaking of Philippine Islam [+–] 153 – 176
Vivienne S.M. Angeles £17.50
This chapter looks at the transnational linkages between the Middle East and the Philippines. To demonstrate the continuing connections and their changing characteristics, the author starts with the historical connections between the Philippines and the Middle East and then focus on the issue of Philippine labor migration to Saudi Arabia.
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Singapore
The objective of this chapter is to explore how the trend of modernity and globalization affect migrant community whose narrative is beyond the frontiers of their homeland and seemingly absent in the receiving country’s national history. Such is the case of Sikh migrants in the Philippines.
9. Shifting Paradigms: Solidarity Groups and the Muslim Secessionist Problem in the Philippines [+–] 201 – 228
University of the Philippines, Manila
In this chapter, the author reveals the conflicts happening within the Muslim community in Philippines and how the problem is being managed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the United Nations.
Strategic Relations between Asia and the Middle East
University of Sydney
This chapter is concerned with the environmental protection of the places where the search for elements that produce energy have increased in the last years. Its aims are three-fold: first, to outline the evolution of the emergent oil nexus between the major Asian consumers and Gulf producers; second, to analyse the short, medium and possible long-term risks that arise from this dynamic; and third, to consider possible medium to longer-term benefits that might arise from a trans-Asian energy collaboration based on renewable energy.
Johns Hopkins University
This chapter will explore the unique bilateral relationship between the UAE and Japan, and highlight overlooked aspects of Middle East-East Asia relations.
12. The Vicissitudes of Japan-Saudi Relations [+–] 283 – 298
Shingetsu News Agency
This chapter will examine the Japan-Saudi relationship from its origins in the 1930s to the present day. This will include a review of the establishment of diplomatic relations, the first major bilateral oil development project, Japan’s growing dependence on oil, the political consequences of that dependence, the decline in Japan Saudi ties, and the more recent effort to revitalize the connection. Finally, a brief assessment will point out a recurring pattern in the Japan-Saudi relationship that should be addressed by the policymakers of both nations.
Center for Contemporary China
Studies, Seoul
Studies, Seoul
This chapter examines the evolving strategic calculations and directions in Chinese foreign policy toward the Middle East and their implications by reviewing the Sino Shi‘a relationship in general, and introducing China’s policy toward Iran, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas in particular. With the end of the Cold War and the revival of Shi‘a, China’s strategic approach toward the Middle East changed thoroughly.
14. Transcending Multilateral Conflicts in Eurasia: Some Sustainable Peaceful Alternatives [+–] 331 – 356
University of Kashmir
The present chapter looks at the Eurasian region in the above perspective, and suggests hypothetically few peaceful alternatives to marginalize conflicts and thereby avoid further human loss and damage to the region’s precious resources, values, systems and structures.3 The chapter is based on both historical and empirical studies.
Index
Index [+–] 357 – 363
Library of Congress
Anchi Hoh is Assistant to the Chief of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress and Chief Executive Director for the Asian Division Friends Society. She is currently a Fellow of the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Dr. Hoh is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) and Co-Chair of the Biannual International Forum on Asia-Middle Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her most recent publication is the translation of a collection of short stories from Arabic to English, Departure of the Sea by Dr. Haifa Al Sanousi, which offers insights into the Kuwaiti society and an Arab view on terrorism.
United States Naval Academy
Brannon Wheeler is a Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis where he was the founding Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies. He received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago after having received a BA in Religion and History at Pitzer College, studying with Carl Ernst at Pomona College. He is the author and editor of nine books including Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006). He is currently finishing a book-length project on camel sacrifice and martyrdom in Islam.
It is almost universally recognized that the Middle East and Asia constitute two of the most important regions today when thinking about international relations, energy and sustainable development, economics, religion, culture, and the so called ‘clash’ or ‘dialogue’ of civilizations. Both the Middle East and Asia are, independent of one another, significant sources of natural resources, military conflict, cultural production, human migration and political attention. Despite the high level of international interest in the Middle East and Asia, there have been relatively few publications focused on the interactions of the two regions and how the two regions are inextricably linked in the economic and political impact they have on the rest of the world. East by Mid-East provides a multi-disciplinary and trans-regional approach to the historical roots and continued development of ties between the Middle East and Asia, from Muslim-Confucian relations to nuclear technology exchange between China and Saudi Arabia. The contributors include academics, policy makers and consultants, leaders in international business, law professionals and military.
