2021 |
“An Encounter of Scripts: Representing Arabic through Tamil and Vice Versa”, in Giovanni Ciotti and Erin McCann (eds.), Linguistic and Textual Aspects of Multilingualism in South India and Sri Lanka, Pondicherry: École française d’Extrême-Orient, pp. 165-213. |
2021 |
“Islam and Sanskritic imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia”, in Chiara Formichi (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Islam in Asia, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 51-65. |
2021 |
“The Idea of Religion and the Criminalization of Muharram in the Straits Settlements, 1830-1870”, in Pushkar Sohoni and Torsten Tschacher (eds.), Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora: Beyond Mourning, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 53-70. |
2021 |
with Pushkar Sohoni, “Introduction”, in Pushkar Sohoni and Torsten Tschacher (eds.), Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora: Beyond Mourning, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-11. |
2019 |
“Between Mosque and Market: Tamil Muslims in Singapore”, in Arun Mahizhnan and Nalina Gopal (eds.), Sojourners to Settlers: Tamils in Singapore, Singapore: Indian Heritage Centre and Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, pp. 213-224. |
2019 |
“Challenging Orders: ṭarīqas and Muslim Society in South-eastern India and Lanka, c. 1400-1950”, in Anne Blackburn and R. Michael Feener (eds.), Buddhist and Islamic Networks in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 75-98. |
2018 |
“Coromandel Coast”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 192-194. |
2018 |
“Jalāl al-Dīn Aḥsan”, Encycopaedia of Islam, third edition, Leiden: Brill, 2018-2, 126-127. |
2018 |
“Kadir, Shaykh Abdul”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 413-415. |
2018 |
“Nagore Dargah”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 522-524. |
2018 |
“Siddi Lebbe, Mohammed Cassim”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 639-642. |
2018 |
“Sri Lanka (Islam and Muslims)”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 652-658. |
2018 |
“Tamil Nadu (Islam and Muslims)”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 672-676. |
2018 |
“Umaru Pulavar”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 705-709. |
2018 |
“Vannapparimalappulavar”, in Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg & Jehan Bagli (eds.), Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Islam, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 717-718. |
2017 |
“‘Money-making is Their Prime Concern’: Markets, Mobility, and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia”, in Michael F. Laffan (ed.), Belonging Across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 99-115. |
2016 |
“From ‘Rational’ to ‘Sufi Islam’? The Changing Place of Muslims in Tamil Nationalism”, in Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher (eds.), Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia, London and New York: Routledge, pp.196-211. |
2016 |
with Deepra Dandekar, “Introduction: Framing Sufism in South Asian Muslim Politics of Belonging”, in Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher (eds.), Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-15. |
2015 |
Entries on “Arcot”, “Chettiar”, “Chulia”, “Inder in Südostasien”, “Madras”, “Madurai”, “Mysore”, “Tanjavur”, and “Tipu Sultan, Fath Ali”, in Hermann Hiery (ed.), Lexikon zur Überseegeschichte, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. |
2014 |
“The Challenges of Diversity: ‘Casting’ Muslim Communities in South India”, in Robin Jeffrey and Ronojoy Sen (eds.), Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 64-86. |
2013 |
“‘You Have to Grant Your Vision’: Ideas and Practices of Visuality in Popular Muslim Art in Tamil Nadu”, in Yousuf Saeed and Christiane Brosius (eds.), South Asia's Islamic Shrines and Transcultural Visuality, published on the Online Platform The Visual Pilgrim. Mapping Popular Visuality and Devotional Media Link |
2012 |
“Religion in Singapur”, in Markus Porsche-Ludwig and Jürgen Bellers (eds.), Handbuch der Religionen der Welt Band 2: Afrika und Asien, Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, pp. 1255-1260. |
2011 |
“Commenting Translation: Concepts and Practices of Translation in Islamic Tamil Literature”, in Ronit Ricci and Jan van der Putten (eds.), Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories, Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, pp. 27-44. |
2011 |
“‘Walls of Illusion’: Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890”, in Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljuneid (eds.), Singapore in Global History, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 57-78. |
2010 |
“Drowning in the Ocean of Tamil: Islamic Texts and the Historiography of Tamil Literature”, in Hans Harder (ed.), Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages, Delhi: Social Science Press, pp. 51-83. |
2010 |
“How to Die before Dying: Šarī‘a and Sufism in a Nineteenth-century Tamil Poem”, in Daniele Cevenini and Svevo D'Onofrio (eds.), Islâm: Collected Essays, ‘Uyûn al-Akhbâr: Studi sul mondo islamico 4, Bologna: I libri di Emil, pp. 433-455. |
2010 |
“Indische Muslime und die Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura”, in Fritz Schulze and Holger Warnk (eds.), Islam und Staat in den Ländern Südostasiens: Islam and State in Southeast Asia, Frankfurter Forschungen zu Südostasien 7, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 83-102. |
2010 |
“Witnessing Fun: Tamil-speaking Muslims and the Imagination of Ritual in Colonial Southeast Asia”, in Michael Bergunder, Heiko Frese and Ulrike Schröder (eds.), Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India, Neue Hallesche Berichte 9, Halle (Saale): Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, pp.189-218. |
2009 |
“Circulating Islam: Understanding Convergence and Divergence in the Islamic Traditions of Ma‘bar and Nusantara”, in R. Michael Feener and Terenjit Sevea (eds.), Islamic Connections: Studies of South and Southeast Asia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 48-67. |
2009 |
“Tamil”, in Kees Versteegh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Vol. 4), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pp. 433-436. |
2008 |
“Zwischen „Rasse“ und Religion: Debatten über Islam und Ethnizität unter tamilischen Muslimen in Singapur”, in Manfred Hutter (ed.), Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 175-191. |
2006 |
Entries on “Chulia”, “Federation of Indian Muslims”, “Indian Muslims”, and “Malabar Muslim Juma-ath”, in Tommy Koh (ed.), Singapore: The Encyclopedia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Paris: Editions Didier Millet and Singapore: The National Heritage Board. |
2006 |
“Islamic Education in a Tamil Town: The Case of Kilakkarai”, in Jan-Peter Hartung and Helmut Reifeld (eds.), Islamic Education, Diversity, and National Identity. Dīnī madāris in India Post 9/11, Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Publications, pp. 196-223. |
2000 |
“Arwi (Arabic-Tamil) — A Brief Report”, newKOLAM. A Mirror of Tamil and Dravidian Culture 5&6. |
1999 |
“Subgruppen tamilsprachiger Muslime Südindiens”, KOLAM. A Mirror of Tamil Culture 4. |
2016 |
Review of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Tamil Language for Europeans: Ziegenbalg’s Grammatica Damulica (1716), translated, annotated and commented by Daniel Jeyaraj with the assistance of Rachel Harrington, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 111(4-5): 424-426. |
2016 |
Review of Kombai S. Anwar, Director, Yaadhum: A Tamil Muslim’s Journey in Search of his Roots and Identity, Chennai: Media Kombai. Asian Ethnology 75(2): 464-466. |
2014 |
With Deepra Dandekar (2014) Review of Nile Green, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Hindu Studies 7(1): 116-118. |
2014 |
Review of Jeanne Hein and V.S. Rajam, The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil: Fr. Henriques’ Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History and Analysis, Cambridge, MA: Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. Asian Ethnology 73(1-2): 317-320. |
2013 |
Review of Søren Christian Lassen and Hugh van Skyhawk (eds.), Sufi Traditions and New Departures: Recent Scholarship on Continuity and Change in South Asian Sufism, Islamabad: Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University 2008. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 163(1), 282-285. |
2013 |
Review of Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2011. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 44(1), 175-176. |
2012 |
Review of Finbarr B. Flood, Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2009. Journal of Hindu Studies 5(2), 243-244. |
2011 |
Review of Nile Green, Sufism: A Global History, Chichester and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. Asian Ethnology 71(2), 281-284. |
2011 |
Anand Pandian: Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India. Durham, Duke University Press, 2009. Journal of Asian Studies 70,1; 286-287. |
2010 |
Review of Ingeborg Hauenschild, Botanica und Zoologica im Babur-name: Eine lexikologische und kulturhistorische Untersuchung, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2006. Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte 10, 294-295. |
2009 |
Daniel Krasa: Lehrbuch des Marathi. Hamburg, Helmut Buske Verlag, 2007. Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 111, 2009; 127-128. |
2007 |
Eveline Masilamani-Meyer: Guardians of Tamilnadu: Folk Deities, Folk Religion, Hindu Themes. Neue Hallesche Berichte 5. Halle, Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle, 2004. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 102,4-5, 2007; 579-582. |