Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia Siam Contributes to the growing field

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Chiang Mai University

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Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia Siam Contributes to the growing fieldBy 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