What Is Religious Authority? (eBook)

Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia

Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Autor)

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2021
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20429-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abdallah • Abdul Malik • Abdurrahman Wahid • Alawi al-Ḥaddad • alawites • Al-Haddad • anthropology of ethics • Anthropology of Islam • Anthropology of Religion • arabic • arabs • Bombay Islam • Bruno Latour • Caliphate • Cemetery • Cirebon • Clergy • Copyright • Creed • Curriculum • Dhikr • dichotomy • Divine Flood • Doctrine • Dutch East Indies • Everyday life • Genealogy • God • habib • Habib Luthfi bin Yahya • Habib's • Ḥaddadian paradigm • Hagiography • History of Religions • Ideology • Indonesia • indonesian language • Infrastructure • Iranian Revolution • Islam • Islamic culture • Islamic Defenders Front • Islamic religious leaders • Islamic schools and branches • Islamic society • Islamism • Islamization • James Bourk Hoesterey • kyai • Labor • Litany • madrasa • Mataram (city) • Mausoleum • mawlid • Mode of Production • Modernity • Mosque • Muhammadiyah • Murshid • Muslim • Muslim world • Nahdlatul Ulama • naqshbandi • narrative • New York University • Nile Green • Nine Saints • Obedience (human behavior) • Pekalongan • Pesantren • piety • Plural • Politics • Prayer • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Prophecy • Proselytism • Protestantism • Rebranding Islam • recitation • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Authority • Religious Community • Religious education • religious text • Romanization of Arabic • Rudiger Seesemann • Sainthood • Salaf • Salafi movement • Salah • Sarong • sayyid • Sermon • Sharia • Sheikh • silsila • Social reality • Southeast Asia • Sufism • Suharto • Sunan Ampel • Sunnah • Sunni Islam • Surabaya • Talal Asad • tariqa • Technology • theocracy • Theology • The Other Hand • The Sufis • Transliteration • Umar • Ummah • Universalism • universality • Votive offering • Wali • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20429-2 / 0691204292
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20429-1 / 9780691204291