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.
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 ......
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. The rapid developments of the modern age have given rise to complex theological and philosophical challenges for Muslim scholarly communities. To confront these questions, editors Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo ......
Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
