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Author:   Anthony Reid (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ,  Michael Gilsenan (New York University, USA) ,  Michael Gilsenan (New York University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780415544870

ISBN 10:   0415544874
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   29 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia Anthony Reid 2. Muslims under Non-Muslim Rule: Evolution of a Discourse Abdullah Saeed 3. Islam and Cultural Modernity: In Pursuit of Democratic Pluralism in Asia Bassam Tibi 4. The Crisis of Religious Authority: Education, Information and Technology Bryan Turner 5. Attempts to Use the Ottoman Caliphate as the Legitimator of British Rule in India Azmi Ozcan 6. An Argumentative Indian: Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, Islam, and Nationalism in India Barbara Metcalf 7. Grateful to the Dutch Government: Sayyid `Uthmân and the Sarekat Islam in 1913 Nico Kaptein 8. Power and Islamic Legitimacy in Pakistan Imran Ali 9. Constructions of Religious Authority in Indonesian Islamism: ‘The Way and the Community’ Re-Imagined Michael Feener 10. The Political Contingency of Reform-Mindedness in Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama: Interest Politics and the Khittah Greg Fealy 11. Political Islam in Malaysia: Legitimacy, Hegemony, and Resistance Joseph Liow

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'It belongs on all postgraduate and undergraduate reading lists on the anthropology of islam and world religions and makes for refreshing comparative reading on a culturally and historically connected region of the Muslim world.' - Magnus Marsden, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2008

Author Information

Anthony Reid was founding Director of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, having previously been Professor of Southeast Asian History at UCLA (1999-2002) and ANU (1987-99). His books include The Indonesian National Revolution (1974), Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680, 2 vols (1988-93), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra ( 2004) and, as editor, The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia (Centre of Southeast Asian Studies: Monash University, 1993), and Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem (Singapore University Press, 2006). Michael Gilsenan is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at New York University, US. His books include Recognizing Islam (1982/2000) and Lords of the Lebanese Marches (1996) His current research is concerned with aspects of the diaspora of Arab families from the Hadhramaut (south Yemen) into South East Asia over the past one hundred years.

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