Oded Abt is a researcher and lecturer in Chinese social and religious history. He is a faculty member in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Hai College and teaches about Chinese religion and society also in the East Asian Studies Departments at Tel Aviv University. His current project is a book-length monograph entitled Muslim Memories and Chinese Identity in Southeast China and Taiwan. The project is based on anthropological and historical research into the ethnic and religious heritage of descendants of Muslims in Southeast China, Taiwan and the Philippines.