Islamic Revivalism in a Changing Peasant Economy: Central Sumatra, 1784-1847

by Christine Dobbin

Book Overview

This title, first published in 1983, is a significant study of one of the many revivalist movements which flowered in numerous Islamic societies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and attempts to provide one particular assessment of the place of revivalism in the evolution of Islamic societies. The subject of this title is the Padri movement, and the community involved is that of the Minangkabau of Central Sumatra, one of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138225932
• ISBN13: 9781138225930
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"