Forthcoming Series: Indian Ocean Cultures (IOC)

 

Executive Series Editors

Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London
& Jorge Santos Alves, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon

Editorial Board

  • Jorge Santos Alves, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon
  • Uday Chandra, Georgetown University Qatar, Doha
  • Dejanirah Couto, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
  • Michael Feener, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
  • Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London
  • Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library, London

 

Aims and Scope

The book series Indian Ocean Cultures (IOC) is a new platform for the study of the tangible and intangible heritage of the vast Indian Ocean space.

It covers a culturally diverse contact zone that has been formed by pluralistic societies within the region and by cultures from around the world. Through the centuries, the Indian Ocean linked the worlds of Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa, facilitating encounters, exchanges and networks that gave rise to cities, ports and civilizations, which, while remaining distinctive, also exhibit traces of interactions and shared knowledge.

There is no time to lose: with global warming and rising sea levels, maritime and littoral heritage are at serious risk.

The series is open to monographs and edited volumes (including co-publications, publications in Open Access, and relevant translations) from diverse fields of study, such as (art) history, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, heritage studies, and social sciences. Editions and studies of archival documents and manuscripts are very welcome, as well as studies with an inter- and multidisciplinary profile, and relevant contemporary topics. All relevant original studies of cultural, social, religious, political, diplomatic, and economic connections and interactions between societies and cultures of the coastal landscapes of the Indian Ocean will be considered for inclusion.

The series aims to encourage a reconnaissance of the Indian Ocean as a center of focus for the study of the Global South. It intends to also include studies that concern:

  • The maritime Silk Roads between China, India and Africa
  • Cultural links between the Western and Eastern shores of the Indian Ocean.
  • Zones of circulation of trade and people (incl. the Gulf, the Red Sea and the strait of Malacca)
  • Muslim Societies and the Sea
  • Indian Ocean Cultures in Global History
  • Trading networks
  • Important economic, political and social developments
  • Academic and political debates about the nature of Islam in the Indian Ocean (for example the role of Buddhism and Sufi orders in the Islamization of the Indian Ocean).
  • Religious communities (Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist)
  • Women & Gender

 

Language:
English is encouraged. French and German are also accepted.

Call for Manuscripts:
Authors and Volume Editors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts by e-mail to Acquisitions Editor Teddi Dols (Teddi.Dols@Brill.com).

Readership:
Historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and scholars from the fields of Cultural Studies, Colonial and Post Colonial Studies, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies, Globalisation Studies, Interdisciplinary and Digital Humanities.

About the Editorial Board members

Jorge Santos Alves, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH), Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), and Coordinator of the Asian Studies Institute (FCH-UCP). He is affiliated, as senior-researcher, to the Center of Communication and Culture Studies (FCH-UCP), and Director of the journal Oriente (Fundação Oriente, Lisbon).

Uday Chandra, Georgetown University Qatar, Doha, is Assistant Professor of Government. Expertise: Asian Studies, Cultural History, Culture and Politics, Indigenous History, Indigenous Movements, Migration Studies, Political Anthropology, Political Theology, Social History, Social Theory, South Asia.

Dejanirah Couto, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, is Professor of Early Modern Portuguese Overseas History and Early Modern Global History. In her research she focuses on Overseas Portuguese History, Early Modern History of the Indian Ocean, Maritime History, and Early modern Ottoman History.

Michael Feener, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto, is Director of the Maritime Asia Heritage Survey, a Japan based multidisciplinary project team concerned with the creation of a huge digital archive/network/mapping of Indian Ocean heritage. His research focuses on the history of Muslim societies of Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean World; legal history and across the broader maritime world of Islam around the Indian Ocean littoral; Muslim networks, Qur’anic studies, Sufism, Shiism, trans-regional histories, and local histories (especially of Aceh and the Maldives).

Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London, is Archaeologist and Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (MCMW). His work focuses on Islamic archaeology in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros), Indian Ocean medieval trade and Muslim material culture of war.

Annabel Teh Gallop, is Lead Curator Southeast Asia at the British Library, London. Expertise: Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, illumination of Qur’ans and other Islamic manuscripts from Southeast Asia, Ottoman links with Southeast Asia. Maritime Southeast Asia.