History of the Malay Kingdom of Patani Guidebook which set this ordinary merchant's

which set this ordinary merchant's extraordinary literary work into its context of time and place

It presents a formidable challenge to the widespread expectation that globalization will be accompanied by enlarged reliance on increasingly similar law

The disciplinary backgrounds of the authors range across history

Bertil Lintner is a former correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review and currently Asia correspondent for the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet as well as a contributor to Asia Times Online

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History of the Malay Kingdom of Patani Guidebook which set this ordinary merchant'sTranslated from Sejarah Kerajaan Melayu Patani By Ibrahim Syukri Translated by Conner Bailey and John N. Miksic Introduction by David K. Wyatt The Sejarah Kerajaan Melayu Patani (The History of the Malay State of Patani) is an extremely rare work, published in what was then Malaya after the Second World War, in the town of Pasir Putih, close to the Thai border. Nothing is known for certain about the pseudonymous author, Ibrahim Syukri, but it can be