Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415451734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 210 str.

Reid Anthony

Opis

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context, showing how Muslims in Asia have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so.

Recenzje

'It belongs on all postgraduate and undergraduate reading lists on the anthropology of islam and world religions and makes for refreshing comparative reading on a culturally and historically connected region of the Muslim world.' -  Magnus Marsden, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2008

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia Anthony Reid  2. Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule: Evolution of a Discourse Abdullah Saeed  3. Islam and Cultural Modernity: In Pursuit of Democratic Pluralism in Asia Bassam Tibi  4. The Crisis of Religious Authority: Education, Information and Technology Bryan Turner  5. Attempts to Use the Ottoman Caliphate as the Legitimator of British Rule in India Azmi Ozcan  6. An Argumentative Indian: Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, Islam, and Nationalism in India Barbara Metcalf  7. Grateful to the Dutch Government: Sayyid `Uthmân and the Sarekat Islam in 1913 Nico Kaptein  8. Power and Islamic Legitimacy in Pakistan Imran Ali  9. Constructions of Religious Authority in Indonesian Islamism: ‘The Way and the Community’ Re-Imagined Michael Feener 10. The Political Contingency of Reform-Mindedness in Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama: Interest Politics and the Khittah Greg Fealy  11. Political Islam in Malaysia: Legitimacy, Hegemony, and Resistance Joseph Liow