Author: William R. RoffPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Islam Obscured? Some Reflections on Studies of Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Author: William R. RoffStudies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Author: William R. RoffPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
William R. Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam and Muslims, with special reference to Southeast Asia. With interests primarily in social and intellectual history he has contributed essays during this period to a wide range of learned journals and other publications. The present collection reprints a selection of the most notable of these, from historiographical and methodological studies to the development of Islamic educational and other institutions, the nature of the Arab presence in Southeast Asia, and the social significance of the hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca. The author has been a formative influence on two generations of students and other scholars, and this reissue in accessible form of seminal but scattered essays will be widely welcomed.
Islam Obscured
Author: D. VariscoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403973423
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest Gellner in 1981). Two other texts are by Muslim scholars, Beyond the Veil (Fatima Mernissi in 1975) and Discovering Islam (by Akbar Ahmed in 1988). Varisco argues that each of these four authors approaches Islam as an essentialized organic unity rather than letting 'Islams' found in the field speak to the diversity of practice. The textual truths engendered, and far too often engineered, in these idealized representations of Islam have found their way unscrutinized into an endless stream of scholarly works and textbooks. Varisco's analysis goes beyond the rhetoric over what Islam is to the information from ethnographic research about what Muslims say they do and actually are observed to do. The issues covered include Islam as a cultural phenomenon, representation of 'the other', Muslim gender roles, politics of ethnographic authority, and Orientalist discourse.
Politics and Cultures of Islamization in Southeast Asia
Author: Georg StauthPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839400813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book is about cultural and political figures, institutions and ideas in a period of transition in two Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It also addresses some of the permutations of civilizing processes in Singapore and the city-state's image, moving across its borders into the region and representing a miracle of modernity beyond »ideas«. The central theme is the way in which Islam was re-constructed as an intellectual and socio-political tradition in Southeast Asia in the nineteen-nineties. Scholars who approach Islam both as a textual and local tradition, students who take the heartlands of Islam as imaginative landscapes for cultural transformation and politicians and institutions which have been concerned with transmitting the idea of »Islamization« are the subjects of this inquiry into different patterns of modernity in a tropical region still bearing the signature of a colonial past.
Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia
Author: Ahmad IbrahimPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9971988089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This volume of selected readings on Islam is a portrait of the Southeast Asian Islamic mosaic, with emphasis on the contemporary period. The collection of articles also serves to reflect the broad thematic interest of scholars — not only indigenous and foreign, but also Muslim and non-Muslim — who have contributed to an understanding of Islam in Southeast Asia.
Islam in Southeast Asia
Author: K S NathanPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789812302830
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.
Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Author: Taufik AbdullahPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Islamization in Southeast Asia
Author: Lau-Fong MakBecoming Arab
Author: Sumit K. MandalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.
Islamic Spectrum in Java
Author: Timothy DanielsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317112180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and Islamic revival sessions. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements, alongside the contested religious interpretations of public cultural events, this book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to scholars of religion, culture and sociology.