Coello de la Rosa, AlexandreVicente Melo, João2024-06-062024-06-062023Coello de la Rosa A, Melo JV. The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill; 2023. 108 p. DOI: 10.1163/9789004517325_0029789004517325http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60372This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian peripheries. Based on a comparative perspective, this book examines the interconnections between the Jesuit proselytizing activities and the imperial projects of the Iberian crowns in Asia, highlighting the role of the Jesuit missionaries operating in Asian Islamic settings as diplomatic and cultural mediators.application/pdfengThis is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Jesuïtesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004517325_002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess