André Wink, Ph.D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and othermajor languages.

• AbbreviationsList of MapsIntroduction1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands1 The Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs2 The Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other3 The Pre-Islamic Heritage4 Explaining Conversion to Islam5 Nomadic Conquest and Destruction6 Religious Conversion7 Chronology2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago1 China’s Southern Ocean2 European Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime FrontierConclusionBibliographyIndex

André Wink, Ph.D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and othermajor languages.

• AbbreviationsList of MapsIntroduction1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands1 The Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs2 The Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other3 The Pre-Islamic Heritage4 Explaining Conversion to Islam5 Nomadic Conquest and Destruction6 Religious Conversion7 Chronology2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago1 China’s Southern Ocean2 European Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime FrontierConclusionBibliographyIndex

André Wink, Ph.D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and othermajor languages.

• AbbreviationsList of MapsIntroduction1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands1 The Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs2 The Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other3 The Pre-Islamic Heritage4 Explaining Conversion to Islam5 Nomadic Conquest and Destruction6 Religious Conversion7 Chronology2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago1 China’s Southern Ocean2 European Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime FrontierConclusionBibliographyIndex