@article{Marcinkowski_2012, title={'Persians and Shi'ites in Thailand: From the Ayutthaya Period to the Present': (March 2012, Singapore)}, volume={3}, url={https://icrjournal.org/index.php/icr/article/view/549}, DOI={10.52282/icr.v3i3.549}, abstractNote={<p>This writer delivered a public lecture upon invitation by the renowned Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC) at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore.<br>In recent years, Thailand - as well as other Southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia, where to date there are said to live more than 100,000 Iranians in its capital Kuala Lumpur alone - has become a popular destination for Iranians. As a matter of fact, Iranian migration to what is now Thailand began as early as the seventeenth century, during the Ayutthaya period when the kingdom hosted a large colony of Iranian merchants.</p> <p> </p>}, number={3}, journal={ICR Journal}, author={Marcinkowski, Christoph}, year={2012}, month={Apr.}, pages={578–579} }