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Author Gibson, Thomas, 1956-

Title Islamic narrative and authority in Southeast Asia : from the 16th to the 21st century / Thomas Gibson
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Contemporary anthropology of religion
Contemporary anthropology of religion.
Contents The Ruler as Perfect Man in Southeast Asia 1500-1667 * Cosmopolitan Islam in South Sulawesi 1640-1705 * Islamic Martyrdom and the Great Lord of the VOC 1705-1988 * Popular Mysticism and the Colonial State 1780-1936 * Cosmopolitan Piety and the Late Colonial State 1860-1950 * Revolutionary Islam and the Nation State 1900-1965 * Official Islam and the Developmental State 1965-2004 * Charisma, Ritual and Models of the Self
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index
Subject Islam -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan -- History
Islam and culture -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
RELIGION -- Fundamentalism.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Ethnology
Islam
Islam and culture
Manners and customs
Religion
SUBJECT Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) -- Religion
Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Indonesia -- Sulawesi Selatan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007061159
ISBN 9780230605084
0230605087
1403979839
9781403979834
9781349538423
1349538426