Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World : Malay Language, Jawi Script, and Islamic Factionalism From the 19th Century to the Present

In Cambodias Muslims and the Malay World Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodias Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. Particular attention is paid to Malay influence, Islamic factionalism and the minority context. "In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia's Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia's Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 1990s ties to the Malay world have been revived and new Islamic currents, including Salafism and Tablighism, have left their mark on contemporary Cambodian Islam. Bruckmayr traces how these dynamics resulted inter alia in a history of local Islamic factionalism, culminating in the eventual state recognition of two separate Islamic congregations in the late 1990s"--back cover Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 List of Illustrations 12 List of Abbreviations 13 Note on Spelling and Transliteration 16 Introduction: Religious Change and Intra-Muslim Factionalism 18 1 Foregrounding the Jawization of Islam in Cambodia 21 2 On the Eve of Jawization and Colonial Rule 42 3 Chams and Malays in Late Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Cambodia 73 4 Observing Structural and Processual Dispositions for Jawization 86 5 Jawization in Cambodia’s Diverse Muslim Landscape of the 1930s 107 6 Agents, Nodes and Vehicles of Jawization 176 7 The French Role in Jawization and Factionalism in Cambodian Islam 273 8 The Legacies of Jawization and Anti-Jawization 308 Conclusion 379 Bibliography 386 Index of Names 415 Index of Places 422 Index of Groups 427