
NATSA Secretary
Aug 81 min read
Fwd: Seeking collaborators / source leads: Taiwan’s Islamicate maritime layer
Forwarded below, please see a research project: I am developing a research paper tentatively titled “The Lost Islamicate Strait: Quanzhou, Hui Lineages, and the Muslim-Adjacent Maritime Substrate of Early-Modern Taiwan.” The paper does not argue that Taiwan was literally founded by Muslims. Instead, it reconstructs a buried maritime layer linking Quanzhou/Zayton, Hui and Muslim-descended Fujianese lineages, Arab–Persian port traces, Southeast Asian Islamicate trade, Zheng/Tun





