Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Formichi, Chiara.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Figures

Editorial Board

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Part I Frames

1 Studying Islam: The View From Asia

Muslims in Asia

Becoming and Being Muslim

Beyond the Center-Periphery Dichotomy

How to Read this Volume

Notes

References

2 Minoritization, Racialization, and Islam in Asia

Defining Our Theoretical Terms: Minoritization and Racialization

Theory Applied: 1857 Rebellion, Minoritization, and Racialization

Ongoing History: Racialization and Minoritization in China

Conclusion: Racialization and Minoritization of Muslims in Asia

3 The Five Pillars and Indonesia's Musical Soundscape

Methodology

Colonial Hearings of Southeast Asia and the Many Islams of Islam Nusantara

Resonant Praxis Through the Five Pillars

The Shahada, Salat, and Other Recitations

Ramadan: Fasting and Feasting

Zakat Tax

Hajj Pilgrimage

What's Music Got to Do With It?

Women's Agency in the Muslim Musical Soundscape

Conclusion

4 Islam and Sanskritic Imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia

From Syncretism to Translation

Terminologies and Translation

Poetics and Imaginaires

Language, Literature, Community

Note

5 Islamic Feminisms in Asia: Trials and Tribulations for Muslim Women

Islam and "Westernization"

Religious Piety and Veiling

Brief Overview of Muslimization in Asian Countries

Hegemony of Arabization Or Saudi Islam

Islamic Feminism

Non-Islamic/western/secular Feminism

Conclusions and Persistent Dilemmas

Part II Authority and Authorizing Practices

6 Eastern African Doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic Intellectual Interactions.

A Jurist, an Agent, and an Endower

The Larger Network

7 The Making of Qīz Bībī in Central Asia's Oral Shrine Traditions: From the Great Lady to a Fourteen-Year-Old Virgin

The Ḥikayat-I Qīz Bībī: The Story of a Virgin Girl

The Shrine of Qīz Bībī

8 The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and Narrative in Highland Asia

Introduction

Community and Conversion in Central Asia

Conversion Narratives in Central Asia

The Role of Sufis in Conversion Narratives

Ismailis and Conversion in Central Asia

Ismaili Conversion Narratives From Badakhshan

ʿAli's Battle With Qahqahah

NNāṣir-i Khusraw and Malik Jahanshah

Shāh Khāmūsh and the coming of Islam to Shughnān

9 Islamic Law in Xinjiang

The Early Islamic Period in Xinjiang (Tenth Century-eighteenth Century)

Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang (1759-1933)

High Qing Xinjiang (1759-1864)

The "Muslim Uprisings" and Interregnum (1864-1878)

Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang (1877-1934)

Late Republican and Revolutionary Xinjiang (1934-1955)

Afterlives of Islamic Law in the People's Republic of China (1955-present)

10 Major Turning Points for Shiʿi Islam in Modern South Asia: Princely States, Partition, and a Revolution

Political Power, Shiʿism, and Princely States

Shi.ism and Political Power in the Deccan and North India

Early Modern Sectarian Conflict

Awadh's Influence Beyond India

Shi.is, the Public Sphere, and Colonial Indian Modernity

The Impact of Partition On Shi.ism in India and Pakistan

The Implications of a Revolution

Conclusion: Where Do We Go From There?

References.

11 Making Islamic Finance in South Asia: The State, the Seminary, and the Business Corporation

Introduction: Religious and Financial Assemblages

An Islamicate Cosmopolitanism: Law and Commerce in the Indian Ocean

Colonialism, Globalization, and Pakistan's State-capital-religion Assemblage

Islamization of Pakistan's Economy and the Birth of Islamic Banking

Pakistan's Deobandis and the Madrasa-Islamic Finance Alliance

Standardization and the Legal Transformation of Islamic Law

12 In the Halal Zones of Malaysia and Singapore

Halal in Southeast Asia

Making Modern Halal Markets

Halal in Malaysia

Halal in Singapore

Teams and Training

Malaysia

Singapore

Part III Muslim Spatialities

13 South Asian Shiʿi Sacred Geography: Tracing ʿAli's Footprints

From Adam to ʿAli: Imprinting Shiʿi Sacred Geography in South Asia

Dargah Shah-E Mardan, New Delhi

Koh-e Moula ʿAli, Hyderabad

14 Muslim Pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints Among the Rice Fields

Reconsidering Islamic Pilgrimage

Southeast Asia: Islam, Politics, and Pilgrimage

Disappearing Keramat in Malaysia and Singapore

Islands of the Wali

Conclusions

15 Ḥaḍramī Sufi-Scholars and Their Shrines in Southeast Asia: A Geography of Sanctity

The Crown of Brides

Sacred Valleys, Worldly Destination

Sufi Migrants in Distant Islands

Slices of Ḥaḍramawt

Geography of Sanctity

16 Sacred Spaces and the Making of Sufism in Sri Lanka: Between Violence and Piety

Sufi Shrines as a Lens for the Study of Islam in Sri Lanka

Contextualizing the Political and Social Milieu of Sri Lanka

The Shared Sacred Geographies of Sarandib

Adam's Peak

Dafther Jailani.

Kataragama

Contestation and Negotiation at Local Sufi Shrines

The Case of Payvilan and the Violence of Anti-Sufism

The Patron Saint of Slave Island: Hussein Bee Bee

17 Muslim Interactions Between Central Asia, China, and Imperial Japan

Placing Muslims Into the Story of the Japanese Empire

The Nineteenth Century: Beginnings of a New Relationship

The Twentieth Century: Pre-Manchukuo and Post-Manchukuo

The Volga Tatars and Other Muslims in Japan

Muslims On the Move With the Help of the Japanese Empire

Afghanistan in the Japanese Imperial Imagination

18 Mosque Architecture and Decoration in China

Beginnings

China's Earliest Islamic Decorative Objects and Architecture

Muslim Architecture in Ming China

Ming-Qing Architecture and Decoration in North-West China

Part IV Imaginations of Piety

19 Mapping the Trajectory of Islam in Chinese Terms: Community Matters

Intellectual Genealogies and Chinese Islam

From Genealogy to Regionalism

Contemporary Legacy of Liu Zhi's Regionalism

20 The "Moral Background" of Work in Central Asia: The Sacred in the Mundane

The Scripturalization of a Vernacular Genre: The Codices of Conduct for Craftsmanship (Risāla)

The Semiotics of Licit Work

Ethics Embodied: Adab, Labor and Its Spiritual Topography

21 Pious Lives of Soviet Muslims

Pious Life, Private Life

Setting 1: A Hypothetical Exchange

Setting 2: A Hospital

Setting 3: A Collective Farm

22 Two Deobandi Views On Being Muslim in India: Indian Bodies, Meccan Hearts

Situating "India"

The Campaigner: Husain Ahmad Madani (1879-1957).

The Reformer: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943)

Beyond Essentialism, Beyond Syncretism

23 The Tablighi Jama'at Movement in Maritime Southeast Asia: Piety in Motion

The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jama'at: A Pan-Asian Lay Missionary Movement in Perpetual Motion

Lay Piety in Action: From Texts to Norms

Piety in a Globalized World: The Tablighi Jama'at Today

Apolitical By Nature? The Tablighi Jama'at's Curious Relationship with/to Power and Politics

Salvation Or Fatalism? The Persistent View of the Tablighi Jama'at as Pious Fatalists

A Movement Without Solutions? The Tablighi Jama'at in the Constellation of Muslim Thought

24 A Tree Enrooted: African Sufi Saints as "Lineage Deities" of a Muslim Community of East African Ancestry in Western ...

The Intervention of the Saints: Bava Gor as Protector of the Sidi Community

Bava Gor as "Lineage God (Kuldevta)" of the Sidi Community

Mai Misra as Lineage Saint (Kulpir) and Lineage Goddess (Kuldevi) of the Sidi Community

The Kalaswali Khichri and the Aniconic Embodiment of Mai Misra

Index.

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ISBN:

9781000457353

1000457354

OCLC:

1272990744