...This chapter examines the role of religion on economics by considering two contrasting stereotypes about Islamic economics: the first is that Islamic banking was immune to the recent economic collapse that affected the rest of the world so dramatically; the second is that Islam is so restrictive...

... life; Islam, which is imagined as the basis for adat, but also exists in some tension with it; and conceptions of Minangakbau character, in which notions of individualized autonomy dominate. Conceptions of adat and Islam define the proper nature of an ordered, integrated society, but this order...

...Discourses in West Sumatra concerning the capacities of human selves include Islamic notions of the physical and metaphysical dimensions of existence and the tension between learned reason (akal) and innate appetites (nafsu). They also include conceptions of moral feelings (raso...

...This chapter examines two series of textbooks commissioned by Osmania University that asserted the importance of Islam to the history of civilization and the importance of Muslims to Indian history. The History of India (Tārīkh-i Hind), written by Sayyid Hashmi Faridabadi...

...Born in 1950, Googoosh began her career as a child actor on stage, television and film; by her twenties, she was the country’s primary female interpreter of musiqi-yi pap (Western-influenced “pop music”). Following the Iranian revolution and the establishment of the Islamic...

... and Islam, the two being increasingly synonymous, it was argued that Malays had to be united and strong—particularly at the center. In addition to reforming and thereby policing Malay identity, incentives and privileges created a culture of privilege and increasing self-rationalization of these purported...

...Islam first arrived in China more than 1,200 years ago, but for more than a millennium it was perceived as a foreign presence. The restoration of native Chinese rule by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), after nearly a century of Mongol domination, helped transform Chinese intellectual discourse...

... of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India...

... al-Fatani, the ulama employed a knowledge network to spread handwritten texts bearing new ideas on the place of Islam in the community. Throughout the nineteenth century, the ulama established a zone of pondok schools across what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia where they set in motion...

...This book is an ethnographic study of moral subjectivity among Minangkabau people, who form an Islamic society in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra. It argues that subjectivity must reflect the multidimensional nature of human selfhood, including its relational and reflective dimensions...

...The particular economic, religious, and political history of Minangkabau society in West Sumatra has fueled a moral tension between autonomy and social integration. Minangkabau society, and the city of Bukittinggi, developed in the image of an Islamic trading society, forged during the social...

... significant innovation. Both the Chinese and Islamic traditions have long histories of syncretizing foreign elements, though both Islam and Confucianism assert a pristine transmission of tradition and dogmatically reject the introduction of innovative thought to the teachings of their founders. Examining...

... scholars is to simultaneously maintain fidelity to their Islamic faith while avoiding Confucian charges of heterodoxy. The chapter emphasizes how the Han Kitāb scholars, and Liu Zhi in particular, were influenced by the literature of earlier apologetic translators of Abrahamic monotheism in China and how...

... Bollywood and homosociality Pakistan Homosexuality Islam Male Friendships Marriage In this chapter I employ a cultural analysis to explore cultural constructions of male same-sex sexual relationships in Pakistan. My ethnographic research focused on Pakistani Sunni Muslim men from the Punjabi...

...This chapter discusses the history of modern Islamic education in Cambodia and the differentiation and discord that have marked that education. It begins with a short overview of the varieties of Cambodian Muslims. It then briefly discusses the historical ties between Cambodian Muslims and Muslims...

... to the islands, along with the polo that required Filipinos to work as forced laborers. It then considers the acquisition of land by the missionary orders, Spain's hostility toward Islam in the Philippines, and the demographic impact of the Hispano-Dutch War. It also examines how climatic change...

... and Aceh. The chapter shows how Aceh prevailed due to its strong economic and cultural links to the great Muslim kingdoms in the Middle East and India. Aceh established new standards of Malayness based on Islam and on many court practices that mirrored the foremost Muslim kingdoms at the time...

...June 2012 saw the release of the song You came to Me, performed by ‘Islam’s Biggest Rock Star’, Sami Yusuf and Malaysian media darling Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin, The song, - previously released on one of Yusuf’s solo albums and recorded in the nasheed idiom - was now repackaged...

... Jakarta Charter MPRS Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly religion shari‘a Islamization MPR People’s Consultative Assembly shari‘a rules Christianity Hindu Iran Pakistan dissonance dissonant Indonesian Muslim s Saudi Arabia Supreme Court Amendment to Article 28 of the 1945...

...This chapter presents debates over the idea of nationalism and Islam–state relations in pre-independence Indonesia (from the 1920s to the early 1940s). It identifies a widespread conviction that nationalism in Muslim countries was a direct result of the foreign, non-Muslim colonialism of Islamic...