Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia, Paperback by Sen, Tan Ta, Like New Used...

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Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia, Paperback by Sen, Tan Ta, ISBN 9812308377, ISBN-13 9789812308375, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Tan Ta Sen has modesty suggested that, as a book to illustrate the peaceful impact of culture contact, he is concerned to show how such cultural influences not only led to transmissions, conversions and transferences involving Inner Asian Muslims from China and Yunnan Muslims, Chams, Javanese, Malays, Arabs and Indians, but also enabled many Chinese in the Malay world to retain their non-Muslim cultural traits. In placing Cheng Ho's voyages in this context, the author offers a fresh perspective on a momentous set of events in Chinese maritime history. Professor Wang Gungwu National University of Singapore Tan Ta Sen's book on Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia is not the first one on the subject, but it is the first book that puts Cheng Ho's voyages in the larger context of "culture contact" in China and beyond. He has garnered numerous sources, from published documents to architectural sites and buildings, to support his arguments. He has done much more than previous scholars writing on this subject. Professor Leo Suryadinata Chinese Heritage Centre (Singapore) This long-awaited book is welcomed by the academic community... Tan Ta Sen has used historical facts to strengthen the argument on the existence of the "Third Wave", . "the Chinese Wave", in the spread of Islam in the Southeast Asian region. The other two major waves were the Indi

• ISBN: 9789812308375
• Condition: Fine

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