Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Reid, Anthony; Gilsenan, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context, showing how Muslims in Asia have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134057092
• Artikelnr.: 43070545

Autorenporträt

Anthony Reid was founding Director of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, having previously been Professor of Southeast Asian History at UCLA (1999-2002) and ANU (1987-99). His books include The Indonesian National Revolution (1974), Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680, 2 vols (1988-93), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra ( 2004) and, as editor, The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia (Centre of Southeast Asian Studies: Monash University, 1993), and Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem (Singapore University Press, 2006). Michael Gilsenan is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at New York University, US. His books include Recognizing Islam (1982/2000) and Lords of the Lebanese Marches (1996) His current research is concerned with aspects of the diaspora of Arab families from the Hadhramaut (south Yemen) into South East Asia over the past one hundred years.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia Anthony Reid 2. Muslims
under Non-Muslim Rule: Evolution of a Discourse Abdullah Saeed 3. Islam and
Cultural Modernity: In Pursuit of Democratic Pluralism in Asia Bassam Tibi
4. The Crisis of Religious Authority: Education, Information and Technology
Bryan Turner 5. Attempts to Use the Ottoman Caliphate as the Legitimator of
British Rule in India Azmi Ozcan 6. An Argumentative Indian: Maulana Husain
Ahmad Madani, Islam, and Nationalism in India Barbara Metcalf 7. Grateful
to the Dutch Government: Sayyid `Uthmân and the Sarekat Islam in 1913 Nico
Kaptein 8. Power and Islamic Legitimacy in Pakistan Imran Ali 9.
Constructions of Religious Authority in Indonesian Islamism: 'The Way and
the Community' Re-Imagined Michael Feener 10. The Political Contingency of
Reform-Mindedness in Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama: Interest Politics and the
Khittah Greg Fealy 11. Political Islam in Malaysia: Legitimacy, Hegemony,
and Resistance Joseph Liow