Abstract
Ludvik Kalus In 1922 Paul Ravaisse published two Arabie inscriptions in the Journal Asiatique. Since that time their assumed Cham provenance has been taken for granted and they have been referred to abundantly as the sole direct sources for the reconstruction of a Muslim presence in Champa in the eleventh century. However a new analysis, based on multifarious elements of comparison, makes it possible to trace with a high degree of probability the provenance of the first inscription, dated 431/1039, to a workshop in the Tunisian city of Kairouan. Meanwhile a critical study of the second, undated, inscription shows that it is difficult to place it at any date prior to the thirteenth century.
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