Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2009. VIII, 392 p., il. ISBN 978 - 9971 - 69 - 424 - 1* The peer-reviewed collective monograph is a study of the interaction of Southeast Asia and the world of Islam for more than a thousand years-from the end of the 1st millennium to the present day. This chronological scope is reflected in the concept of "longue duree", which Fernand Braudel proposed for understanding the history of man in his relationship with the environment, which is often cyclical and largely determines the fate of individual communities and individuals [Braudel, 1958, p.725-753]. The publication is based on the reports of a seminar held in 2004 at the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore). Some of them were published earlier on the Internet (for example: [Laffan, 2005]), but collected under one cover, they better reflect the idea of editor E. Tagliacozzo (Singapore) to explore the diverse forms of interaction between two cultural and geographical worlds: Southeast Asia and the Middle East. E. Tagliacozzo's introductory article "Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Defining the object of research" 1 formulates the main research problems: how the Middle Eastern varieties of Islam "catch hold" in Southeast Asia; whether these trends have changed during the migration from the Hijaz to the East and whether they have been reinterpreted, if so, in what way; how best to interpret the cultural, political and religious phenomenon of the transmission of Muslim ideas and practices; how the two cultural areas have been linked in order to transmit what has become technically possible; whether the age of colonialism has changed these links; what are the links between the two regions today; whether the means of dialogue between civilizations have changed; what were the mechanisms of communication and how they have changed throughout history. The monograph consists of four parts. The first part of" Early Contact Measurements " opens with t ... Читать далее