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More interesting panels are on the agenda today on day 2 of Association for Asian Studies #AASInAsia2025, featuring Annabel T. Gallop (Annabel Gallop), Renaud Egreteau, and many of our other distinguished authors! Get 20% off our special conference list: buff.ly/uZN466v 📚 #AsianStudies

Honorable Mention for Diwani script in the IRCICA calligraphy competition for Indonesian calligrapher Yusuf Elang Samudera, an evocative name meaning 'Yusuf, Eagle of the Ocean'

WUKUF ARAFAH Besok, jemaah haji Indonesia akan mengikuti wukuf di Arafah. Mohon doa untuk kesehatan, keselamatan, dan kemabruran jemaah haji Indonesia khususnya, dan semua jemaah umumnya...🤲 Jemaah haji di Arafah pun mendoakan yg terbaik utk Indonesia, dan kita semua...🤲

On 16 May, Christoph Rauch, the director of #Qalamos project, gave a talk on Collection History & Provenance Data in the Qalamos Portal. It was delivered at a symposium on the history of book & techniques used to create books in the Muslim world, held at the Collège de France.

referenceworks.brill.com/display/entrie… 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Years in the making and finally out: the new collaborative entry on Qur'an translations in the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online, edited by yours truly, nearly 60,000 words long!

Kanvas Purbakala on Google Arts & Culture hosts the world’s largest digitized collection of prehistoric rock art from more than 100 Indonesian caves. artsandculture.google.com/project/indone…

The tradition of beating bark to produce cloth probably emerged in South China before spreading to Island Southeast Asia. A new article presents barkcloth beaters found on the island of Sulawesi which mark a technological leap from mainland examples: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Exciting News! ✨The Digital Library Cave database platform has officially been launched, offering unprecedented access to #Dunhuang's cultural treasures. This comprehensive resource integrates over 9,900 digitized sutras and historical documents, along with 60,700 artifacts

Seen in Jacobin: A review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025). Read more about one of the latest from SEAP Pubs here! jacobin.com/2025/04/indone…

Obituary of Patricia Herbert (1953-2025), curator for Burmese and head of the Southeast Asia section at the British Library from 1975-1998, and for many years my kind and supportive manager theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

Tony Reid was in KL during the May 1969 riots, as a lecturer in history at UM - this is his report, published in 1970 in Australia malaysiainstitute.anu.edu.au/content-centre…

Join our team in 2026! We're seeking multiple doctoral candidates and postdocs to advance research on manuscripts and other written artefacts at our cluster. Apply now — just over one week left! uhh.de/csmc-jobs

Nice report in Berita Harian about my catalogue 'Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia' bharian.com.my/rencana/saster… NUS Press 2019, following my online talk for the PNM Youtube Wacana Manuskrip Melayu. The book is also available in Indonesia lontar.org/product/malay-…

MANTRATANTRAM (Monsoon Asia as the Nexus for the TRAnsfer of TANTRA along the Maritime routes, ERC Consolidator Grant 101124214), led by Andrea Acri at the EPHE (PSL University, Paris), will study tantric traditions across Monsoon Asia tantra.hypotheses.org/?fbclid=IwY2xj…

So proud of Haliza Hashim-Doyle 🙏🏽🙏🏽 well deserved. Universiti Malaya has chosen well!

Blog post by Mohammed Khaleel on early Arabi-Malayalam lithographed books printed in Kerala in the 1870s-1880s in the British Library collection - interesting parallels with early Malay lithographic printing from Singapore blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Ronit Ricci . Univ of Chicago pr 2011 PDF is available on author's Academia ⬇️ academia.edu/42914180/Islam… PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/islam…

Exile in Colonial Asia Kings, Convicts, Commemoration ed. Ronit Ricci . Univ of Hawai‘i Pr 2016 PDF is available on on editor's Academia 🔽 academia.edu/42914167/EXILE…

Silver image of a Buddha from Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, c. 700-800 CE, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.

If you are in Singapore on 3 August 2025, I will be talking to the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society at the ACM on 'Ming Ceramics for the Islamic Market: ‘Ninefold circle’ Plates with Arabic Script' seaceramic.org.sg/event/ming-cer…