Written by Joshua W.J. Brown. This article recovers an overlooked Islamicate layer in Taiwan’s maritime history by tracing connections between Quanzhou, Muslim-descended Fujianese lineages, and migration across the Taiwan Strait. Rejecting claims of a “Muslim Taiwan,” it instead shows how genealogy, ports, ritual memory, and maritime networks complicate China-centred histories and reveal Taiwan as part of a plural, interconnected maritime world.
