Following extensive revisions, the papers from the International Zukunftsphilologie Workshop "Global Conjunctions in the Indian Ocean: Malay World Trajectories", held in Berlin in November 2011, were published as a special issue of the journal Indonesia and the Malay World. Sumit K. Mandal served as the guest editor of the special issue, now titled "Global Conjunctions in the Indian Ocean: Malay World Textual Trajectories".

The special issue brings together eight scholars from different disciplines in a collaborative exploration of the cultural geography of the Malay world in a global context through a focus on texts. Following a brief introduction by Mandal, the special issue consists of the following articles:

• Engseng Ho, Foreigners and mediators in the constitution of Malay sovereignty;
• Ronit Ricci, The Malay world, expanded: the world’s first Malay newspaper, Colombo, 1869;
• Sunil S. Amrith, The Bay of Bengal and the Malay world: diasporas and cultural circulation, c. 1780–1950;
• Francis R. Bradley, Sheikh Da’ud al-Fatani’s Munyat al-musalli and the place of prayer in 19th-century Patani communities;
• Mulaika Hijjas, Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two 19th-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives;
• Sumit K. Mandal, The Indian Ocean in a Malay text: the Hikayat Mareskalek in transregional perspective; and
• Iza Hussin, Textual trajectories: re-reading the Constitution and Majalah in 1890s Johor;
• An afterword by Tim Harper, The Malay world, besides empire and nation.

The special issue can be accessed here.