{"id":10325,"date":"2023-03-08T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=10325"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:55:31","slug":"swk2023-01","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/event\/swk2023-01\/","title":{"rendered":"KITA Discourse Series 1\/2023: Muslim Presence in 17th-Century Ayutthaya Beyond Its Southern Ethnic Enclaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

MUSLIM PRESENCE IN 17TH<\/sup>-CENTURY AYUTTHAYA BEYOND ITS SOUTHERN ETHNIC ENCLAVES
\nBy
\nDR. CHRISTOPHER M. JOLL
\n(VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND & CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, THAILAND)<\/h2>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

This seminar challenges the misconception that the most important aspect of Muslim presence in the former capital of Ayutthaya\u2014specifically south of its fortified citadel\u2014is its (Cham, Malay, and Makassaris) ethnic enclaves. Although some of these appear in well-known maps of the Siamese capital during the 17th-century, my reconstruction of Muslim presence outside the walled city is based on a wide range of (European, Persian, and Siamese) primary sources. After addressing important details such as the overall size of Ayutthaya’s population and the proportion that lived outside the city, I critically curate where Muslims, Mosques, and Muslim communities appear in travelogues, descriptions of the city, and maps. The picture of Muslim presence provided by aggregating these fragments suggests that historians interested in ethnicity, and\/or ethnic studies specialists interested in the past, need to move beyond this familiar trope. I document Muslim involvement in manufacturing and trade and the location of mosques south of the city, before suggesting reasons for Southeast Asian (Shafi’i) Muslims having been domiciled outside the walled city by a series of Siamese monarchs during this period when Persian and Indo-Persian (Shi’ite) Muslims were most powerful.<\/p>\n

PRESENTER’S PROFILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Christopher M. Joll is a New Zealand anthropologist who was based in Thailand for 20 years, before returning to his home country at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic. 18 years. Since stumbling into anthropology 20 years ago, his primary ethnographic subjects have been Thailand\u2019s Muslim minority. He completed his PhD at ATMA, UKM in 2009, and his monograph (Muslim Merit Making in Thailand\u2019s Far South) was published by Springer in 2011. He is a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Muslim Studies at Chulalongkorn University\u2019s Institute of Asian Studies<\/p>\n

E-mail: Christopher.Joll@vuw.ac.nz<\/p>\n

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME<\/h3>\n

Date: 13 March 2023 (Monday)
\nTime: 10 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m. (GMT +8)
\nVenue: KITA Meeting Room
\nPlatform: Zoom & KITA Facebook page (links below)<\/p>\n

10.00 a.m.: Introduction by Moderator
\n10.10 a.m.: Presentation by Dr. Christopher M. Joll
\n11.10 a.m.: Q & A Session
\n12.00 p.m.: Closing<\/p>\n

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