What Is Religious Authority? : : Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia / / Ismail Fajrie Alatas.
An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Isla...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ;
85 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names, Dates, Translation, and Transliteration -- A map of Java showing the places discussed in the book -- Introduction: Cultivating Islam -- Part I. Authority in Motion -- 1 Figures -- 2 Texts -- 3 Institutions -- Part II: Assembling Authority -- 4 Itineraries -- 5 Infrastructure -- 6 Politics -- 7 Genealogies -- Epilogue: Authority and Universality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE |
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Summary: | An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities.Taking readers from the eighteenth century to today, Alatas traces the movements of Muslim saints and scholars from Yemen to Indonesia and looks at how they traversed complex cultural settings while opening new channels for the transmission of Islamic teachings. He describes the rise to prominence of Indonesia's leading Sufi master, Habib Luthfi, and his rivalries with competing religious leaders, revealing why some Muslim voices become authoritative while others don't. Alatas examines how Habib Luthfi has used the infrastructures of the Sufi order and the Indonesian state to build a durable religious community, while deploying genealogy and hagiography to present himself as a successor of the Prophet Muhammad.Challenging prevailing conceptions of what it means to be Muslim, What Is Religious Authority? demonstrates how the concrete and sustained labors of translation, mobilization, collaboration, and competition are the very dynamics that give Islam its power and diversity. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780691204291 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754186 9783110753967 9783110739121 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780691204291?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ismail Fajrie Alatas. |