Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery

by Philip Taylor

This fascinating account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta, and of its creative accommodation to the modernizing reforms of the Vietnamese government, shows how Islam provides a unifying focus for Cham Muslims in their diversely constituted rural settlements. Full of Cham Muslim people's stories and voices, this highly readable ethnographic study reverberates with the texture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831543
• ISBN13: 9780824831547
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"