Description: What Is Religious Authority? : Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia, Hardcover by Alatas, Ismail Fajrie, ISBN 0691204306, ISBN-13 9780691204307, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
An anthropologists groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Java
This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatass 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 Indonesias leading Sufi master, Habib Luthfi, and his rivalries with competing religious leaders, revealing why some Muslim voices become authoritative while others dont. 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 Mu?ammad.
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.
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Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Religious Authority? : Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Islamic Studies, Comparative Religion, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Item Length: 10.7 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
