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  • 9 - Studying Asia and Islam

  • Chiara Formichi, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    Islam and Asia
    Published online:
    16 April 2020
    Print publication:
    07 May 2020, pp 264-271

  • Summary

    In 2011 the Metropolitan Museum opened its renovated Islamic Art wing. In 2012 the Louvre opened its own new galleries on Islamic Art. Yet, neither New York nor Paris give any space to Asia beyond Moghul India. The Met’s Southeast Asia collection focuses on the Hindu-Buddhist “classical” period, while the Louvre simply does not have any objects from Asia, as these are exhibited at the Musée Guimet. This chapter suggests that the approach to the study of Islam in Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped an understanding of Islam as “foreign” to the region and vice versa, contributing to the idea of peculiar forms of Islamic devotion and beliefs in the lands beyond the Oxus/Amu Darya river. Illustrating the missed encounter between “Islam” and “Asia”, the chapter focuses on – and ultimately suggests ways to reconcile – the isolation of Islamic Studies and Asian Studies as two disciplinary fields of study.