Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. His book Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asia Frontier, 1865-1915 (2005), won the Harry J. Benda Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies in 2007.

"Southeast Asia and the Middle East provides a varied survey of a centuries-cold and many-faceted relationship between two important regions of the Muslim World."—Carool Kersten, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences "From the 1st century to the 21st, from Mecca to Mindanao, from post-Ptolemaic geography to post-Suharto politics-- the breath-taking scope of this book is matched only by the thought-provoking quality of its scholarship." —Donald K. Emmerson, Stanford University "A timely book that provides a deep historical context to the movement of Islamist ideas and the associated radicalization of Southeast Asia and recognizes neither centres nor peripheries, Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Dureé provides sophisticated interpretations of how waves of reform have affected both homelands. The book represents the best of the new trilingual scholarship, doing justice to both Arabic and Indonesian sources."—Anthony Reid, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore