Chams - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Chams - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kiernan, Ben

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061239
Doc. NO	:	ALei1636
Main Entry	:	Kiernan, Ben
Title & Author	:	Chams - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kiernan, Ben
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(3,889 words)
Abstract	:	The Chams are an ethnic minority and largely Muslim population now concentrated in Cambodia and Vietnam, groups of which practise many varieties of Islam, from syncretist traditions incorporating Hindu beliefs and practices, to a more orthodox version of Sunnī Islam. 1. The Chams before Islam The Chams, Austronesian-speaking relatives of the Malays, emerged in history as a seafaring people of Southeast Asia. In the first millennium B.C.E., they sailed from the west coast of Borneo across the South China Sea and settled in what is now central
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1636.pdf