List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: Situating Malabar in the Indian Ocean Mahmood Kooria 1. Sources for Malabar Muslim Inscriptions Mehrdad Shokoohy 2. Khutbat al-Jihadiyya : A Sixteenth-Century Anti-Portuguese Sermon Mahmood Kooria 3. Some Early Documents about the Interactions of the Saint Thomas Christians and the European Missionaries Istvan Perczel 4. Cross-Cultural Interactions and Missionary Writings in the Context of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1600-72 121 Meera G. Muralidharan 5. Patappattu , a Malayalam War-Song on the Portuguese-Dutch Battle in Cochin Mahmood Kooria 6. Charles Dellon's Journey through Malabar Michael Naylor Pearson 7. Through a Persian Looking Glass: Malabar's World in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Gagan D.S. Sood 8. Mother Goddess and the Wooden Ship: Tale and Trade in the Tottam of Marakkalattamma Abhilash Malayil 9. Religious Rivalries in Eighteenth-Century Malabar: The Diasporic Writings of a Hadrami Scholar Abdul Jaleel P.K.M. 10. Jews and Other Peoples of Southern India: Excerpts from the Travelogue Even Sapir, by Rabbi Jacob Sapir, Based on His Journey along the Malabar Coast and Beyond, 1860 Richard G. Marks 11. The Malabar Mosque: A Visual Manifestation of an Egalitarian Faith Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy 12. The Mosque in a Land of Temples: Reading Malabar's Muslim Monuments Sebastian R. Prange Glossary Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index

Takes into account a vast range of primary sources on the role of Malabar in the broader undercurrents of the Indian Ocean world. Includes ranslations of unknown or underutilized materials varying from Malayalam, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, French, Dutch, Hebrew, Latin, and Portuguese. Is interdisciplinary in its content and approach to accommodate architectural, ethnographic and epigraphic frameworks.

Mahmood Kooria is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University, the Netherlands. Earlier he was a joint research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, and African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden. Michael Naylor Pearson is professor emeritus at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Takes into account a vast range of primary sources on the role of Malabar in the broader undercurrents of the Indian Ocean world. Includes ranslations of unknown or underutilized materials varying from Malayalam, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, French, Dutch, Hebrew, Latin, and Portuguese. Is interdisciplinary in its content and approach to accommodate architectural, ethnographic and epigraphic frameworks.