Description
The Routledge Handbook on 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窶鄭sia connections.
Presenting work grounded in archival, literary, and ethnographic inquiry, contributors to this handbook lend their expertise to paint a picture of Islam as deeply connected to and influenced by Asia, often by-passing or reversing relationships of power and authority that have placed 窶連rab窶� Islam in a hierarchically superior position vis-à-vis Asia. This handbook is structured in four parts, each representing an emergent area of inquiry:
- Frames
- Authority and authorizing practices
- Muslim spatialities
- Imaginations of piety
Dislodging ingrained assumptions that Asia is at the periphery of Islam 窶� and that Islam is at the periphery of Asia窶冱 cultural matrix 窶� this handbook sets an agenda against the 窶歪enter-periphery窶� dichotomy, as well as the syncretism paradigm that has dominated conversations on Islam in Asia. It thus demonstrates possibilities for new scholarly approaches to the study of Islam within the 窶連sian context.窶�
This ground-breaking handbook is a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian studies, religious studies, and cultural studies more broadly.
Table of Contents
Part I: Frames 1. Studying Islam: the view from Asia 2. Minoritization, racialization, and Islam in Asia 3. The five pillars and Indonesia窶冱 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 Qﾄｫz Bﾄｫbﾄｫ in Central Asia窶冱 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 Shiﾊｿi 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窶冓 sacred geography: Tracing 'Ali窶冱 footprints 14. Muslim pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints among the rice fields 15. 盧､a盧荒amﾄｫ 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窶兮t 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)
