The international conference on “Ottomans and the Malay World: Contemporary Reflections on History, Culture and Economy” was organized by the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and IRCICA with the collaboration of the University of Malaya – Asia West East Center, Asia Middle East Center for Research and Dialogue, Bait Al-Amanah, and the National University of Singapore, and held on 14-15 October 2023 at ISTAC/IIUM, Kuala Lumpur. It is a pleasure for IRCICA to present the proceedings book of the conference, with eleven articles reflecting the various relationships which developed between the Malay world and the Ottoman world over the centuries. Following the Preface of IRCICA Director General Prof. Mahmud Erol Kılıç, the articles’ titles are: by İsmail Hakki Kadı, “Syed Muhammad bin Ahmad Alsagoff (Nong Chik, 1836-1906) Through the Ottoman Lens”; İsmail Hakkı Göksoy, “An Ottoman Sheikh Al-Islam in the Philippines: Mehmed Vecih Efendi”; Tayfun Akgün, “From Istanbul to Johor: The Story of Khadijah Hanim”; Mehmet Özay, “Some Reflections of Socio-Political Changes from Türkiye in Vernacular Press of the Archipelago, 1920-1940”; Alwi Alatas, “Fostering Hope: The Presence of the Ottoman Consulate in Batavia, 1882-1924”; Murat Yaş, “Islamic Financial Innovation: A Historical Approach”; Haziq Hakimi, “Hedging in Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War”; Ahmed Çağrı İnan, “Türkiye-Malaysia Relations: The Impact of Turkish TV Series in Malaysia, 2017-2023”; Alaeddin Tekin, “Beyond Pan-Islamism: Understanding the Ottoman Caliphate’s Southeast Asian Policy”; Muhamad Syafiq Bin Mardi, “Singapore Sepoy Mutiny 1915 and Relations with the Ottoman Empire”; Syed Farid Alatas, “Prophethood and the Ahl al-Bayt as the Locus of Unity”.
