Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional
connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering
Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab
explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered
by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal
traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted
creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by
economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but
did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs
responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with
the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations,
schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations
respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism,
advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern
Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings
of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental
development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its
birth.
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