Cambodia's Muslims and the Malay World: Malay Language, Jawi Script, and Islamic Factionalism from the 19th Century to the Present.

• Author: Errichiello, Gennaro

ASIA

Bruckmayr, Philipp. Cambodia's Muslims and the Malay World: Malay Language, Jawi Script, and Islamic Factionalism from the 19th Century to the Present. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2019.

Based upon extensive archival research and fieldwork, Philipp Bruckmayr's book represents a detailed analysis of the formation of Cambodia's Muslim minority community of Cham and Khmer speakers. His book represents an outstanding analysis of the adoption of the Malay language and the jawi script on behalf of the Cham minority in Cambodia. As suggested by the author, this book, which is focused on a country that is not associated with the historical Islamic ecumene, is written for those scholars who are interested in the "processes of religious standardization that have been underway in the Muslim world since the nineteenth century" (368). At the core of this book is the process of Jawization that has contributed "to a homogenizing trans-Southeast Asian Islamic...