Conclusion

The conclusion begins with reminiscences of a visit to a mosque in the Baṛaliyā village of Patiya district, Chittagong, which houses a cot that supposedly belonged to Saiyad Sultān. The chapter tells the tale of this miraculous cot, and the connections of its master to the kingdom of Arakan. This account highlights the interconnected nature of the histories of Chittagong and Arakan, and the bitter irony of today’s Rohingya crisis. It foregrounds this book’s contribution to translation theory and to research on the Islamization of southeast Bengal and the Islamic cosmopolis of early modern South Asia, while pointing to new directions for research.