INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM SYEKH YUSUF AL-MAKASSARI AND THE INDIANOCEAN WORLD

Syekh Yusuf al-Makassari and the Indian Ocean World: Aceh, Islamic Knowledge, and Transregional Connections" The seminar will explore Syekh Yusuf not simply as a Sufi scholar or anti-colonial figure, but as a mobile intellectual whose life connected multiple centres of Islamic learning and political authority across the Indian Ocean. • Syekh Yusuf's intellectual and spiritual formation in Aceh; • Sufi networks connecting Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, Ceylon, and Africa; • Islamic law and scholarly authority across maritime networks; • connections between Aceh, Makassar, South Asia, the Middle East, Ceylon, and the Cape; • the possibilities and limitations of using the “Indian Ocean world” as a framework for studying Indonesian Islamic histo