Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliterations, Spelling, and Dates
Introduction
Part I: Western Deposits
1. From the Spice Islands to the Place of Sadness
2. Shaping Islam at the Cape of Good Hope
3. Sanguinary Attacks and Unruly Passions
4. Friends Firm and Warm
Part II: Muslim Mediations
5. Other Malays, Other Exiles
6. Between Shrinking Kandy and Distant Istanbul
7. For Queen, Country, and Caliph in Africa
8. Seven Pashas for Ceylon
Part III: Eastern Returns
9. A Caliph for Greater Java
10. For Arabs, Arabic, and the Community
11. Pan-Islamism, Nationalism, Pan-Asianism
12. Forgotten Jihad
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Michael Francis Laffan is professor of history and Paula Chow Chair in International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia (2003) and The Makings of Indonesian Islam (2011) as well as the editor of Belonging Across the Bay of Bengal (2017).