Sumit K. Mandal

About

I am a historian interested in the transregional architecture of Asian societies. My research has focused primarily on Muslim societies in the Malay world - in relation to the Indian Ocean - as well as contemporary Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Before joining the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore in 2024, I worked at University of Nottingham Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and held fellowships at New York University and Kyoto University. I completed my doctoral degree in History at Columbia University in 1994.

Employment

• National University of Singapore Muhammad Alagil Chair in Arabia Asia Studies
  2024 - Present
• University of Nottingham Malaysia Associate Professor
  2015 - 2024

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Publications (30)

• An Oceanic Connection with the World: A View from a Nineteenth-Century Malay Account of Bengal
  Oceans that Speak: Islam and the Emergence of the Malay World 2024
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• An Arab Indonesian Singing Preacher, an Islamic Mass Concert, and the Historic Capture of a Public Space in Malaysia
  Asian Studies Review 2024 DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2022.2131734
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• Charting a Malay-Islamic past: An emerging transnational geography of meaning and the consolidation of an exclusivist identity in Malaysia
  History and Anthropology 2023 DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2023.2249478
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• Hadrami connections with the Malay world Chapter Hadrami connections with the Malay world
  Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas 2022
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• Pathways of the Umma: The Flow of Faith Tourists from Peninsular Malaysia to Aceh in Indonesia
  The Muslim World 2019 DOI: 10.1111/muwo.12290
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• Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia, by Rachel Leow
  Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 2018 DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17404009
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• Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
  Cambridge University Press 2018 DOI: 10.1017/9781108164931
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• Arabs in the urban social landscapes of Malaysia: Historical connections and belonging
  Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging 2015 DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2014.964544
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• Creole Hadramis in the cosmopolitan Malay world of the 1800s: Fragments of biographies and connected histories
  Cosmopolitan Asia: Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South 2015 DOI: 10.4324/9781315672106
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• Challenges to authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia
  Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Comparing Indonesia and Malaysia 2013 DOI: 10.4324/9780203060391
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