Islamic legitimacy in a plural Asia / edited by Anthony Reid and Michael Gilsenan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Anthony, 1939-

Gilsenan, Michael.

Series:

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 3.

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Asia.

Islam.

Islam and civil society.

Religious pluralism.

Asia.

Religious pluralism--Islam.

Religious pluralism--Asia.

Islam and civil society--Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Some radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in the context of South and Southeast Asia - not only the home of the majority of the world's Muslims, but also Islam's historic laboratory in dealing with religious pluralism. Pluralism in Asia is not simply a contemporary development of secular democracies, but a long-tested pattern based on both principle and pragmatism. Asian Muslims have argued for many centuries about the legitimacy of non-Islamic government over Muslims, and about the place of non-Muslim peoples, polities and rights under Islamic governance. This book explores and analyses some of the ways these debates have developed, and continue to develop, in South and Southeast Asia. The evidence presented here suggests that pluralism has long been a fact of life in this region, and has always outlasted attempts, such as those of contemporary political Islamists, to deny its legitimacy.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Muslims and power in a plural Asia / Anthony Reid 1

2 Muslims under non-Muslim rule: evolution of a discourse / Abdullah Saeed 14

3 Islam and cultural modernity: in pursuit of democratic pluralism in Asia / Bassam Tibi 28

4 The Crisis of religious authority: education, information and technology / Bryan S. Turner 53

5 Attempts to use the Ottoman Caliphate as the legitimator of British rule in India / Azmi Ozcan 71

6 An argumentative Indian: Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, Islam and nationalism in India / Barbara Metcalf 81

7 Grateful to the Dutch Government: Sayyid 'Uthman and the Sarekat Islam in 1913 / Nico Kaptein 98

8 Power and Islamic legitimacy in Pakistan / Imran Ali 117

9 Constructions of religious authority in Indonesian Islamism: 'the way and the community' reimagined / R. Michael Feener 139

10 The political contingency of reform-mindedness in Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama: interest politics and the Khittah / Greg Fealy 154

11 Political Islam in Malaysia: legitimacy, hegemony, and resistance / Joseph Chinyong Liow 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415451734

0415451736

9780203933404

0203933400

OCLC:

152580842