Islamic narrative and authority in Southeast Asia : from the 16th to the 21st century / Thomas Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Thomas, 1956-

Series:

Contemporary anthropology of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Indonesia--Sulawesi Selatan--History.

Islam.

Ethnology.

Islam and culture.

History.

Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia)--Religion.

Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia).

Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Islam and culture--Indonesia--Sulawesi Selatan.

Ethnology--Indonesia--Sulawesi Selatan.

Indonesia--Sulawesi Selatan.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The roots of contemporary Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia lie in the sixteenth century, when Christian Europeans first tried to dominate Indian Ocean trade. Through a detailed analysis of sacred scriptures, epic narratives and oral histories from the region, this book shows how Southeast Asian Muslims combined cosmopolitan Islamic models of knowledge and authority with local Austronesian models of divine kingship to first resist and then to appropriate Dutch colonial models of rational bureaucracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, these models continue to shape regional responses to contemporary trends such as the rise of global Islamism.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Symbolic Knowledge and Authority in Complex Societies 1

Chapter 2 The Ruler as Perfect Man in Southeast Asia, 1500-1667 27

Chapter 3 Cosmopolitan Islam in South Sulawesi, 1640-1705 55

Chapter 4 Islamic Martyrdom and the Great Lord of the VOC, 1705-1988 85

Chapter 5 Popular Mysticism and the Colonial State, 1811-1936 111

Chapter 6 Cosmopolitan Piety and the Late Colonial State, 1850-1950 137

Chapter 7 Revolutionary Islam and the Nation-State, 1900-1965 161

Chapter 8 Official Islam and the Developmental State, 1965-2004 183

Chapter 9 Conclusion: Narrative, Ritual, and Models of the Self 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.

ISBN:

1403979839

9781403979834

OCLC:

77767563

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