Forging Islamic Power and Place charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh Da'ud bin 'Abd Allah al-Fa?ani regrouped in Mecca. In the years that followed, al-Fa?ani composed more than forty works that came to form the basis for a new, text-based type of Islamic practice. Via a network of scholars, students, and...
Forging Islamic Power and Place charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the I...
