"This highly interesting book deals with the integration of Cambodia’s Muslim minority community [...] into the wider Southeast Asian Muslim scholarly culture through what the author calls Jawization.
The core of the book are chapters five and six which together take about half of the entire book (pp. 90–256). These pages belong to the best pieces I have ever read on the Muslim networks, texts, and persons circulating in mainland Southeast Asia and their connections with Mecca around the year 1900, and the only criticism I have is that at times the book is too detailed.
All in all, this is an excellent contribution to the study of Islam in Cambodia, which convincingly shows how this history is linked to the more cosmopolitan scholarly Muslim communities in Kelantan and Patani in mainland Southeast Asia, and to the intellectual centers of the Muslim world in Mecca and Cairo in the Middle East."
– Nico J.G. Kaptein, Leiden University, in BKI 176.2-3 (2020).

"This is a rare book that provides a fascinating account of the Muslims in Cambodia. It is a well-researched book superbly enriched by the author’s extensive field trip and interviews. A must-read for those who are interested to dissect the dynamics of the Islamic journey in Cambodia."
– Mayengbam Nandakishwor Singh, National Law University and Judicial Academy, in Asian journal of Social Science 50.2 (2022).

"This book is one of the greatest contributions to the field of Cham Studies in relation to the fields of Islamic Studies and Cambodian Studies published in recent English-language scholarship. [...] The detail-driven analysis of Bruckmayr's study is indeed quite refreshing."
– Julius Bautista, Kyoto University, in Southeast Asian Studies 10.2.