Chiara Formichi, "Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032106646 | 2024 | 370 pages | PDF | 106 MB
English | ISBN: 1032106646 | 2024 | 370 pages | PDF | 106 MB
The Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia offers both new and established scholarship on Muslim societies and religious practices across Asia, from a variety of interdisciplinary angles, with chapters covering South, Central, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa–Asia connections.
Presenting work grounded in archival, literary, and ethnographic inquiry, contributors to this handbook lend their expertise to paint a picture of Islam as deeply connected to and influenced by Asia, often by-passing or reversing relationships of power and authority that have placed ‘Arab’ Islam in a hierarchically superior position vis-à-vis Asia. This handbook is structured in four parts, each representing an emergent area of inquiry:
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