Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia: From the 16th to the 21st Century

by Thomas Gibson

Book Overview

Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230110479
• ISBN13: 9780230110472
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"