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Routledge Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts: 26 (Nias Studies in Asian Topics)

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Product Description The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists and historians convey is a feeling of dissatisfaction with the very term. Their uneasiness relates to the conceptual problems arising from seeing Islam as either local or global. Rather, the authors argue in favour of a focus not on Islam but on the lives of Muslims, putting their lives into the context of complex historical developments. Ranging across much of the vast extent of the Islamic world - from West Africa and the Near East to China and Southeast Asia - the contributions deal with the effects of migration on local Islamic traditions in Bangladesh; conflicts between Muslim sects in Pakistan; the development of jihad in West Africa; the problem of maintaining a Muslim identity in China; how Javanese Muslims combine their Islamic faith with belief in a local Javanese spirit world; the comparison between urban- and rural-based Islam in Syria; and (in two studies from western Sudan) issues of belief and broader aspects of identity management in a multi-ethnic situation. Review '...provides a useful antidote to conventional studies that insist upon analayzing Muslim societies solely through the lens of Islam...' - Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Professor Ali S. Asani From the Publisher Rejecting the term "Local Islam" The term "local Islam" has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalization in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of "local Islam" as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists an historians convey is a feeling of dissatisfaction with the very term. Their uneasiness relates to the conceptual problems arising from seeing Islam as either local or global. Rather, the authors argue in favour of a focus not on Islam but on the lives of Muslims and to put their lives into the context of complex historical developments. Ranging across much of the vast extent of the Islamic world - from West Africa and the Near East to China and Southeast Asia - the contributions deal with the effects of migration on local Islamic traditions in Bangladesh; conflicts between Muslim sects in Pakistan; the development of Jihad in West Africa; the problem of maintaining a Muslim identity in China; how Javanese Muslims combine their Islamic faith with belief in a local Javanese spirit world; the comparison between urban- and rural-based Islam in Syria; and (in two studies from western Sudan) issues of belief and broader aspects of identity management in a multi-ethnic situation. The cases provide material that allows for comparative discussions of Islam as a lived religion in areas close to its heartland as well in distant parts where Islam meets and interacts with other religious and cultural traditions. The chapters show how local discourses in communities of Muslims often are not about the cosmological dimensions of things but rather they revolve around religious practices, they deal with issues of morality and they are about identities. How, then, scholars are to classify combinations of so-called Muslim - and non- Muslim - beliefs, customs and identities, thus appears to to be a question wrongly put. The issue for scholars seeking to understand Muslim communities is not one of classification but rather the need to understand the content of the discourse itself. The task, argue the authors, is to move beyond Orientalist notions of an unchanging world of Islam and to focus on the diversity of Muslim experiences.

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05 March 1999
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