The Chams are an ethnic minority and largely Muslim population now concentrated in Cambodia and Vietnam, groups of which practise many varieties of Islam, from syncretist traditions incorporating Hindu beliefs and practices, to a more orthodox version of Sunnī Islam. 1. The Chams before Islam The Chams, Austronesian-speaking relatives of the Malays, emerged in history as a seafaring people of Southeast Asia. In the first millennium B.C.E., they sailed from the west coast of Borneo across the South China Sea and settled in what is now central
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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