Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia

William R. Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam, with special reference to Muslims in Southeast Asia. His interests lie primarily in social and intellectual history, and he has contributed essays to a wide range of learned journals and other publications.

The present collection reprints a selection of the most notable of these articles, a body of writing that includes work on the development of Islamic educational and other institutions, the nature of the Arab presence in Southeast Asia, and the social significance of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as studies in historiography and methodology.

William R. ROFF is Honorary Professorial Fellow in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Professorial Research Associate at the Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.