What is religious authority? : cultivating Islamic communities in Indonesia / Ismail Fajrie Alatas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alatas, Ismail Fajrie, 1983- author.

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Islam--Indonesia.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 10 b/w illus.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This text 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Names, Dates, Translation, and Transliteration

A map of Java showing the places discussed in the book

Introduction: Cultivating Islam

Part I. Authority in Motion

1 Figures

2 Texts

3 Institutions

Part II: Assembling Authority

4 Itineraries

5 Infrastructure

6 Politics

7 Genealogies

Epilogue: Authority and Universality

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691204314

0691204314

9780691204291

0691204292

OCLC:

1246581247