Welcome to the Muslims in Thailand Bibliography & Biography [MITBB] Project!

The MITBB is a teaching and research resource conceived, created, and maintained by a cohort of researchers affiliated with the Centre of Southeast Asian Maritime States Studies (CSEAMS) at Prince of Songkhla University’s Pattani Campus. Our hope is that this assists anyone sharing our interest in Thailand’s large, diverse, and growing Muslim minority.

The MITBB curates two distinct—but connected—datasets. 

The first are bibliographies of English language scholarship concerned with aspects of this Muslim population both in—and beyond—the Malay-dominated southern border province. Over and above Islam’s wide geographical spread, these publications document the local sectarian diversity of the ummah. Although Muslim Studies in Thailand has been impacted by security and conflict studies, the scholars who produced these publications work in a wide range of academic disciplines.

The three (searchable and downloadable) bibliographies are based on the 2025 version of the MITBB RIS file. This can be imported into reference management software (such as EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley). Some of these publications can be downloaded from our Google Drive. Feel free to contact us here, should you encounter any problems accessing these

The subject of MITBB’s second dataset are biographies of the Malay ‘ulama active between present-day Pattani and the Middle East, from the mid-1780s until the 1940s. We have documented the legacy of these influential individuals through a range of tables, figures, maps, and infographics. These provide details about: (1) Their families networks; (2) Their teachers and students in both (a) halaqa in the Hijaz, and (b) pondok in Patani; (3) The local pondok they established; (4) The kitab they published; and (5) The kitab that were copied.

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