Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is Religious Authority?Condition: NewSubtitle: Cultivating Islamic Communities in IndonesiaISBN-10: 0691204306EAN: 9780691204307ISBN: 9780691204307Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/22/2021Description: An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book 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. He describes the rise to prominence of Indonesia's leading Sufi master, Habib Luthfi, and his rivalries with competing religious leaders, revealing why some Muslim voices become authoritative while others don't. Alatas examines how Habib Luthfi has used the infrastructures of the Sufi order and the Indonesian state to build a durable religious community, while deploying genealogy and hagiography to present himself as a successor of the Prophet Muḥammad.Challenging prevailing conceptions of what it means to be Muslim, What Is Religious Authority? demonstrates how the concrete and sustained labors of translation, mobilization, collaboration, and competition are the very dynamics that give Islam its power and diversity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Ismail Fajrie AlatasGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, HistoryBook Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim PoliticsRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is Religious Authority?
Title: What Is Religious Authority?
Subtitle: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
ISBN-10: 0691204306
EAN: 9780691204307
ISBN: 9780691204307
Release Date: 06/22/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Religious Authority? : Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Islamic Studies, Comparative Religion, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Item Length: 10.7 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
