Islam and Social Change in Asia and Africa, a Comparative Study

这个项目是用跨学科的方法来考察亚洲和非洲社会政治文化变迁与伊斯兰教之间的关系的特殊性和共性，特别是这样的周边人民中国和东南亚穆西姆地区。项目的成员来自中东、印度次大陆、非洲、东南亚和中国地区研究的各个领域，来自不同的学科领域，如历史学、国际关系学、比较政治学、人文地理学和比较文学。通过项目框架内密集的联合研究活动，一个共同的兴趣范围逐渐集中在亚洲研究的方法论和态度方面，以及“地区研究”之间的比较研究。在一个关于“地区研究和东方主义”的公开座谈会上进行了结束性的讨论，聚集了许多关心的学者。

This Project is to examine the peculiarities and generalities among the relationships between socio-politico-cultural changes and Islam in Asia and Africa by interdisciplinary approaches, covering specifically even such peri- People's China and the Musilm areas of South-east Asia.The members of the Project are from the various fields of area studies on the Middle East, Indian Sub-continent, Africa, South-east Asia and China, and are from different disciplinary domains such as history, international relations, comparative politics, human geography and comparative literature.Through the intensive joint research activities within the framework of the Project, a common scope of interest has gradually been focussed on both the methodological and attitudinizing dimensions of Asian studies and the comparative studies among "area studies." A conclusive discussion was made in an open colloquium on "Area Studies and Orientalism", gathering many, concerned scholars.