East by Mid-East - Studies in Cultural, Historical and Strategic Connectivities - Anchi Hoh
4. The Cosmopolitan Canopy of East Maritime SE Asia: Minority citizenship in the Phil-Indo Archipelago
East by Mid-East - Studies in Cultural, Historical and Strategic Connectivities - Anchi Hoh
Bruce B. Lawrence [+]
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).
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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.