Islam in South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, 1500–1800: expansion, polarisation, synthesis

Anthony Reid

doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521850315.014

12 - Islam in South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, 1500–1800: expansion, polarisation, synthesis

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2011

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David O. Morgan: Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anthony Reid: Affiliation:
National University of Singapore

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Over the past half-century historians have endeavoured to moderate the exaggerated importance long attached to 1498 and the arrival in the Indian Ocean of a small band of Portuguese. The Portuguese introduced consistent reportage in a language still relatively accessible, and in this sense 1498 may stand as a turning point in the literature. Asia was henceforth linked to Europe directly, and the exchange of ideas and technologies was possible without Arab or Central Asian mediation. Apart from an aggressive naval strategy and more effective technologies of navigation, time-keeping and warfare, however, the Portuguese had little more to offer by way of modernisation of commerce, science and technology. They made the great effort to join the maritime trade of the Indian Ocean precisely because it was already highly developed, delivering spices to Europe through Alexandria and Venice, and using some sophisticated financial techniques unknown to the Portuguese.

To this Muslim-dominated trade the Iberians initially brought only plunder and disruption, and were naturally seen as a scourge. In the longer term the establishment of a direct maritime route of trade around the Cape of Good Hope was profoundly important in depriving the Islamic commercial networks of their monopoly of east–west trade and intellectual mediation. It also introduced to the world of the Indian Ocean a sharp polarisation between Islam and its rivals from which the maritime world had previously been spared.

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Information: The New Cambridge History of Islam , pp. 427 - 469

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