How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia
Bandit Saints of Java is a work of nonfiction that delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the wacky world of local pilgrimage. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today - largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists - by many of the 130 million people of Java.
How do Muslims make sense of a scripture they believe was revealed fourteen centuries ago? In Languages of the Qur'an, anthropologist Yunus Dogan Telliel takes readers into the lives of Turkish Muslims grappling with this very question. Following years of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, Telliel explores two of the most powerful forces shaping ......
How do Muslims make sense of a scripture they believe was revealed fourteen centuries ago? In Languages of the Qur'an, anthropologist Yunus Dogan Telliel takes readers into the lives of Turkish Muslims grappling with this very question. Following years of ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey, Telliel explores two of the most powerful forces shaping ......
The Sufis and Sultans of the Makli Necropolis, 1380-1660
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Makli necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds, if not thousands, of graves. Makli's distinctive architecture sheds light on the intersection of transregional artistic styles through its ......
The Sufis and Sultans of the Makli Necropolis, 1380-1660
Established in the late fourteenth century in what is now Sindh Province, Pakistan, the Makli necropolis grew over three centuries to a site of more than seventy monumental tombs and mosques, and hundreds, if not thousands, of graves. Makli's distinctive architecture sheds light on the intersection of transregional artistic styles through its ......
Islam and Security in the Postcolonial Muslim State
There is a fundamental paradox in counter-terrorism: while Muslim state elites insist that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, the way Muslim states deal with terrorism has everything to do with Islam. In countries like Morocco and Tunisia, terrorism is treated by governments as if it is a religious problem. Elsewhere, in Malaysia, Islamic ......
Ali Altaf Mian demonstrates how attention to genre and embodiment illuminates the concepts and practices of the Islamic tradition-and how theologians, Sufi mystics, and ordinary Muslims respond to the incapacitating tribulations of creaturely existence in modernity. Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty is grounded in the rich textual archive ......
Ali Altaf Mian demonstrates how attention to genre and embodiment illuminates the concepts and practices of the Islamic tradition--and how theologians, Sufi mystics, and ordinary Muslims respond to the incapacitating tribulations of creaturely existence in modernity. Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty is grounded in the vast textual archive ......
