International Symposium

Islamization in Southeast Asia as reflected inliterature, archival documents and oral stories
Osaka, 2-5 November 2023
A joint research project of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa(ILCAA). “Early Islamization Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia” (jrp000280)
Co-sponsored by:• JSPS KAKENHI ‘Fundamental research for the construction of historical pictures of Islamic reception
and social relations in continental Southeast Asia’ (20H01325)• JSPS KAKENHI ‘Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: religion, kingship, and cosmology’ (21H00575)• HINDOWS (Indian Ocean World Studies project, Osaka University)

Venue:
Osaka University, Minoh campus, Graduate School of Humanities / School of Foreign Studies
3-5-10 Senba Higashi, Minoh, Osaka 562-8678 JAPANAccess See URL: https://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/top
Senba Lifelong Learning Center
3-10-1 Senba Higashi, Minoh, Osaka 562-8678 JAPANAccess See URL: https://llc.osaka-u.ac.jp/access/Registration:
In-Person

Online (Nov3)

Contact:
islamization.in.southeast.asia11@gmail.com

Online (Nov5)

PROGRAMME:THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER

4F MINOH CAMPUS
Book launch16:00~18:00

various speakers

Ronit Ricci (ed.), Storied island. New explorations in Javanese literature (Leiden/Boston 2023)
FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER: INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIAEARLY ISLAMIZATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: RELIGION, KINGSHIP, AND COSMOLOGYROOM 632 MINOH CAMPUS
9:15~9:30

Yumi Sugahara

OpeningSpeculation
9:30~10:15
10:15~11:00

Tony Day &Tambangraras the Sufi mystic and her murid Nyai Cĕnthini. The role of women inNancy Floridaislamization as represented in the Sĕrat Cĕnthini, 17th to early 19th century.

Pramono‘Straightening the words of misguided knowledge’ in Minangkabau by Syamsuddin asSumatrani.

Basics
11:10~11:55

Edwin Wieringa

11:55~12:40

Hiroko Kushimoto

The catechismic impulse. Reflections on the manuscript record of Java’s earliest period ofislamisation.
The conversion story in Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa in the context of Malay
Islamic thought.

Denotations
14:00~14:45

Toru Aoyama

Changes in the concept of bangsa/vangsa mediated by Islam.

14:45~15:30

Arif Maftuhin

Translating jalabib. From 17th century tutup muka to 20th century jilbab.

Repute15:40~16:25
16:25~17:10

Majid DaneshgarDiscovering a hidden miraculous grave. A rare Persian and Arabic inscription of Ferdowsi’s& Micheal Feener

Shāhnāmah from Barus, Indonesia.

Ronit Ricci

Muslim womanhood between the lines. Reading the Kitab al-Mar'ah.

PERFORMANCE

18:30~20:30

Wayang‘Dewa Ruci’ performed by Magica Mamejika (gamelan: Darma Budaya).
Venue: F1 Memorial Hall.
SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER: CONTINENTAL SOUTHEAST ASIA

BENGALI AND CHAM MUSLIMS IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA: BETWEEN HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGYROOM 632 MINOH CAMPUS
Bengali Muslims in Myanmar and Thailand
9:30~10:20

Zaw Lynn Aung

Presence of Muslims and conflicts between two communities in the Late Mrauk U Period

10:25~11:15

Kazuto Ikeda

The 1942 incident in northern Rakhine.

11:20~12:10

Samak Kosem

Mobility patterns and network strategies of Rohingya in Thailand.

13:30~14:20

Toshihiko Shine(1638-1784).

Cham and Islam in Vietnam and Cambodia
On so-called Hai Nhan, Lam Nhan, Chiem Tuc, Ni Tuc (諧人, 藍人, 占俗, 尼俗): compositionand classification of the Cham from the view point of the Nguyen Dynasty(阮朝) in Vietnam.
14:25~15:15

Yasuko Yoshimoto

A consideration on classification of the Cham through the case of the Cham Bani in modernday Vietnam.

15:30~16:20

Rie Nakamura

The Cham without Champa: the ethnic identity of the Muslim Cham people and theirmigration.

16:25~17:15

Reiko Okawa

Cham identity in Cambodia. A study from the 2013-2016 survey in Cambodia and 2023
interviews in the United States.
SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER: INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIAEARLY ISLAMIZATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: RELIGION, KINGSHIP, AND COSMOLOGY

511+512, SENBA LIFELONG LEARNING CENTER
Assignments
9:30~10:15Ben Arps

God, gods, and idols in the Javanese Stories of Amir (16th century).

10:15~11:00

Yumi Sugahara

God as an invisible being and spirits, heroes, and kings as intervening beings.

Challenges
11:10~11:55

Verena Meyer

Mapping defiance. Memory and the landscape of opposition to Java’s islamization.

11:55~12:40

Peter Riddell

Theological reflections from 17th Century Aceh: voices as yet unheard?

Repercussions
14:00~14:45

Henri Chambert-

The impact of Islam on early Malay texts.

Loir
14:45~15:30

Koji Miyazaki‘Adam’s descendants in Java.’ On the genealogy at the beginning of Babad Tanah Jawi andSerat Kandha.

Propitiation
15:40~16:25

Willem van der

An 18th-century remake of the Old Javanese hymn in praise of Rama.

MolenConclusion
16:25~17:10

AllGeneral discussion.

PERFORMANCE

19:00~21:00

North Indian

Performed by: Junzo Tateiwa, Makoto Kitada.

Classical Music

Venue: Room 510