Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-14 - Publisher: Springer
The stimulus for the joint venture of which the present book is the visible result was provided by the discovery of a Malay manuscript of the long lost Hikayat Patani by one of the authors, and the publication, quite independently, of a Thai version of the same text by the
Authors: Anthony Reid, Barbara Watson Andaya, Geoff Wade, Azyumardi Azra, Numan Hayimasae, Christopher Joll, Francis R. Bradley, Philip King, Dennis Walker, Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, Iik A. Mansurnoor, Duncan McCargo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: NUS Press
At the heart of the on-going armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom "since time immemorial," Patani Malay nationalists look back
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept. In fact, it is generally considered an oxymoron. An image of a Buddhist monk holding a handgun or the idea of a militarized Buddhist monastery tends to stretch the imagination; yet these sights exist throughout southern Thailand. Michael Jerryson offers an extensive examination