Michael Laffan

941 total citations
33 papers, 418 citations indexed

About

Michael Laffan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Laffan has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 418 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Education and 11 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Michael Laffan's work include Asian Studies and History (26 papers), Islamic Studies and Radicalism (12 papers) and Education and Islamic Studies (11 papers). Michael Laffan is often cited by papers focused on Asian Studies and History (26 papers), Islamic Studies and Radicalism (12 papers) and Education and Islamic Studies (11 papers). Michael Laffan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Michael Laffan's co-authors include R. Michael Feener and Ahmad Syafii Maarif and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Asian Studies and Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

In The Last Decade

Michael Laffan

30 papers receiving 310 citations

Peers

Michael Laffan
Henri Chambert–Loir France
Nico J.G. Kaptein Netherlands
T. N. Harper United Kingdom
M.M. van Bruinessen Netherlands
Karel Steenbrink Netherlands
Roy P. Mottahedeh United States
Brian Stanley United Kingdom
Deliar Noer Australia
Tarīf Khālidī Lebanon
James A. Bellamy United States
Henri Chambert–Loir France
Michael Laffan
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Laffan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Laffan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Laffan

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All Works

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Laffan, Michael. (2022). Under Empire. Columbia University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Maarif, Ahmad Syafii, et al.. (2020). Islam, Humanity, and Indonesian Identity: Reflections on History. Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 35(3). 554–556. 5 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2019). Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 5 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2011). The Makings of Indonesian Islam. Princeton University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2009). Review of Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism. eCommons (Cornell University).
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Laffan, Michael. (2007). “Another Andalusia”: Images of Colonial Southeast Asia in Arabic Newspapers. The Journal of Asian Studies. 66(3). 689–722. 9 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2006). What is Indonesian Islam. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2006). From alternative medicine to national cure. Another voice for the Sûfî orders in the Indonesian media . Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 135. 91–115. 3 indexed citations
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Feener, R. Michael & Michael Laffan. (2005). Sufi Scents Across the Indian Ocean : Yemeni Hagiography and the Earliest History of Southeast Asian Islam. Archipel. 70(1). 185–208. 18 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2003). Between Batavia and Mecca. Images of Agoes Salim from the Leiden University Library. Archipel. 65(1). 109–122. 1 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2003). Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia. 74 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2003). The tangled roots of Islamist activism in southeast asia. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 16(3). 397–414. 13 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2003). Writing from the colonial margin: the letters of Aboe Bakar Djajadiningrat to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Indonesia and the Malay World. 31(91). 356–380. 4 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (2001). Making Meiji Muslims: the Travelogue of Ali Ahmad al-Jarjawi. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 145–170. 3 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (1999). The resurrection of Ireland the Sinn Féin Party, 1916-1923. 17 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (1999). Mustafa and theMikado: A Francophile Egyptian's turn to Meiji Japan. Japanese Studies. 19(3). 269–286. 4 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (1996). Watan and negeri: Mustafa Kamil's ‘rising sun’ in the Malay world. 24(69). 156–175. 7 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (1989). The Burden of German History 1919-45: Essays for the Goethe Institute. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Laffan, Michael. (1971). The unification of Sinn Fein in 1917. Irish Historical Studies. 17(67). 353–379. 5 indexed citations

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