TY - BOOK AU - Karim,Wazir Jahan TI - Straits Muslims: diasporas of the Northern passage of the Straits of Malacca SN - 9789834403409 PY - 2009/// CY - George Town PB - Straits G.T. KW - Muslims KW - Malaysia KW - History KW - Islam KW - Malays (Asian people) KW - Penang KW - Social life and customs N1 - Multiculturalism in the diasporas of Southeast Asian Islam / M. Ismail Marcinkowski -- The ethnogenesis of Straits Malays in Penang, an early civil society in formation / Wazir Jahan Karim -- The legacy of Sumatran trade and knowledge networks in Penang / Abdur-Razzaq Lubis -- The Tamil Muslims in early Penang, networks for a new global frontier / Khoo Salma Nasution -- The Hadrami diaspora in the Straits of Malacca, economic and political empowerment at the Ocean's Edge / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Haji Abdullah Ibrahim bin Ahmad Badawi, 1873-1977, foundations of an Islamic Tutelage / Rokiah Talib -- Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar, 1873-1954, philosophies of Islam, civil society, and civilisations / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Syed Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hady, 1867-1934 and the reform of Malay society, ideological and utopian dimensions / Syed Farid Alatas ER -