The Study of Persian Shi‘ism in the Malay-Indonesian World: A Review of Literature from the Nineteenth Century Onwards

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to display the significance of studies relating to the influence of Persian Shi‘ism in Southeast Asia in general, and the Malay Archipelago in particular. With this purpose in mind, a comprehensive bibliography of works published in the ninteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (1888-2014) is presented. An attempt is also made to present the influence of Persian Shi‘a figures and elements on the historical and modern Malay Archipelago.