Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367225285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 370 str.

Chiara Formichi

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Islam in Asia offers both new and established scholarship on Muslim societies and religious practices across Asia, from a variety of interdisciplinary angles, with chapters covering South, Central, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa-Asia connections.

Spis treści

Part I: Frames  1. Studying Islam: the view from Asia  2. Minoritization, racialization, and Islam in Asia  3. The five pillars and Indonesia’s musical soundscape  4. Islam and Sanskritic imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia  5. Islamic feminisms in Asia: Trials and tribulations for Muslim women  Part II: Authority and authorizing practices  6. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic intellectual interactions  7. The making of Qīz Bībī in Central Asia’s oral shrine traditions: From the Great Lady to a fourteen-year-old virgin  8. The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and narrative in highland Asia  9. Islamic law in Xinjiang  10. Major turning points for Shiʿi Islam in modern South Asia: Princely states, partition, and a revolution  11. Making Islamic finance in South Asia: The state, the seminary, and the business corporation  12. In the halal zones of Malaysia and Singapore  Part III: Muslim spatialities  13. South Asian Shi’i sacred geography: Tracing 'Ali’s footprints  14. Muslim pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints among the rice fields  15. Ḥaḍramī Sufi-scholars and their shrines in Southeast Asia: A geography of sanctity  16. Sacred spaces and the making of Sufism in Sri Lanka: Between violence and piety  17. Muslim interactions between Central Asia, China, and imperial Japan  18. Mosque architecture and decoration in China  Part IV: Imaginations of piety  19. Mapping the trajectory of Islam in Chinese terms: Community matters  20. The "moral background" of work in Central Asia: The sacred in the mundane  21. Pious lives of Soviet Muslims  22. Two Deobandi views on being Muslim in India: Indian bodies, Meccan hearts  23. The Tablighi Jama’at movement in maritime Southeast Asia: Piety in motion  24. A tree enrooted: African Sufi saints as "lineage deities" of a Muslim community of East African ancestry in Western India (Gujarat and Mumbai)

O autorze

Chiara Formichi is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of Islam and politics in late-colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asia, and especially Indonesia. She has also published on the politics of knowledge production on Islam in Asia. Her publications include Islam and the Making of the Nation: S.M. Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20^th Century Indonesia (2012) and Islam and Asia: A History (2020).