Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia

<p>The <i>Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia </i>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.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <li>Frames</li> <li>Authority and authorizing practices</li> <li>Muslim spatialities</li> <li> Imaginations of piety</li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>Dislodging ingrained assumptions that Asia is at the periphery of Islam – and that Islam is at the periphery of Asia’s cultural matrix – this handbook sets an agenda against the ‘center-periphery’ dichotomy as well as the syncretism paradigm that has dominated conversations on Islam in Asia. It thus demonstrates possibilities for new scholarly approaches to the study of Islam within the ‘Asian context.’</p><p>This ground-breaking handbook is a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian studies religious studies and cultural studies more broadly.</p>