Indonesians and Their Arab World : : Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims / / Mirjam Lücking.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Lücking, Mirjam,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones, 2 maps

Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the way contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia exists on the periphery of an Islamic world centered around the Arabian Peninsula. Mirjam Lücking approaches the problem of interpreting the current conservative turn in Indonesian Islam by considering the way personal relationships, public discourse, and matters of religious self-understanding guide two groups of Indonesians who actually travel to the Arabian Peninsula—labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims—in becoming physically mobile and making their mobility meaningful. This concept, which Lücking calls "guided mobility," reveals that changes in Indonesian Islamic traditionsare grounded in domestic social constellations and calls claims of outward Arab influence in Indonesia into question. With three levels of comparison (urban and rural areas, Madura and Central Java, and migrants and pilgrims), this ethnographic case study foregrounds how different regional and socio-economic contexts determine Indonesians' various engagements with the Arab world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography, Transliteration, Translation, and Dates -- Map of the Indonesian archipelago. Map of Java and Madura -- Introduction WHOSE ARAB WORLD IS IT? -- 1 INDONESIA AND THE ARAB WORLD, THEN AND NOW -- 2 THE BEATEN TRACKS AND EMBEDDED RETURNS OF MIGRANTS AND PILGRIMS -- 3 ARAB OTHERS ABROAD AND AT HOME -- 4 ALTERNATIVE ROUTES IN MADURA AND TRANSLATIONAL MOMENTS IN JAVA -- Conclusion CONTINUITY THROUGH GUIDED MOBILITY -- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index