Southeast Asia’s Arabs

Michael Backman

Chapter Chapter 19 in The Asian Insider, 2004, pp 154-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Arab traders have long operated in Southeast Asia. They traded in spices, timber and textiles. So an important trading minority in Southeast Asia that goes largely unrecognised comprises the local descendants of Arabs. But this minority is more specific than simply coming under the rubric of ‘Arab’. Most of the prominent Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans of Arab descent have their origins in southern Yemen in the Hadramawt coastal region. They are the Hadramis.

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Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403948403_19

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