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Professor William R. Roff
- BA, MA (First Class), University of New Zealand
PhD, Australian National University
- Honorary Fellow
- Emeritus Professor of History, Columbia University
Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental & African
Studies
- Email: william.roff@btinternet.com
Principal research interests
The social and intellectual history of Islam in Southeast Asia, 18th-20th centuries, and the comparative study of Muslim societies with special reference to Arabia, Egypt and South Asia and to such institutions as the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), education, Islamic economics, and legal systems.
Publications
Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse (ed., University of California Press, 1987)
Sanitation and security: the imperial powers and the nineteenth century hajj” (Arabian Studies (Cambridge) 1982)
An argument about how to argue” (in Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and their Fatwas, Harvard University Press, 1996)
Patterns of Islamisation in Malaysia, 1890s-1990s: exemplars, institutions and vectors” (Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford) 1998)
Social science approaches to understanding religious ritual: the special case of the hajj” (in Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, ISEAS, Singapore, 2001)
Murder as an aid to social history: the Arab community in Singapore in the early twentieth century” (in Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politic, Trade and Islam in Southeast Asia, KITLV, Leiden, 002)
Pondoks, madrasas and the production of ‘ulama in Malaysia” (Studia Islamika (Jakarta), 2004)
The Ins and Outs of Hdrami journalism in Malaya, 1900-1941: assimilation or identity maintenance?” (in Proceedings, International Conference on Yemeni-Hadramis in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur, 2005)
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