Jesuit Encounters With Islam in the Asia-Pacific

Rosa, Alexandre Coello de la; Melo, Joćo Vicente

ISBN 10: 9004462783 / ISBN 13: 9789004462786

Published by Brill, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jesuit Encounters With Islam in the Asia-Pacific
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004462783
• ISBN 13: 9789004462786
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage vis-ą-vis Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast-Asian peripheries. Based on a comparative perspective, this book examines the interconnections between the Jesuit proselytizing activities and the imperial projects of the Iberian crowns in Asia, highlighting the role of the Jesuit missionaries operating in Asian Islamic settings as diplomatic and cultural mediators. It is aimed at researchers and students working on Jesuit missions in South Asia, the Portuguese and Spanish Empires in Asia, early modern cross-cultural diplomacy, early modern travel accounts, and early modern ethnography.

About the Author

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa is senior professor in the Humanities Department at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona). His main lines of research deal with historical anthropology, chronicles of the Indies, and early modern Spanish colonialism, with a special focus on the ecclesiastical history of the Marianas and the Philippines.

Joćo Vicente Melo is a Ramón y Cajal fellow at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. He has published widely on cross-cultural diplomacy, religious missions, and the diplomatic practices of the Portuguese Empire in Asia.