Afsar Mohammad
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199997589
- eISBN:
- 9780199346448
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199997589.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This book is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non–Muslim practices. With evidence from various public ...
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This book is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non–Muslim practices. With evidence from various public devotional narratives and ritual practices, this book argues that even universal understanding of living Islam remains incomplete, if we do not consider this locally produced pluralized devotional setting that surrounds it. This book seeks to address various aspects of local and localized Islams through an examination of Gugudu’s local and popular transformation of normative Islam, giving particular focus to the various devotional rituals that blend Muslim and Hindu practices in the public event of Muharram.Less
This book is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non–Muslim practices. With evidence from various public devotional narratives and ritual practices, this book argues that even universal understanding of living Islam remains incomplete, if we do not consider this locally produced pluralized devotional setting that surrounds it. This book seeks to address various aspects of local and localized Islams through an examination of Gugudu’s local and popular transformation of normative Islam, giving particular focus to the various devotional rituals that blend Muslim and Hindu practices in the public event of Muharram.
Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748696857
- eISBN:
- 9781474412247
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696857.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as ...
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Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This book challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions, the book illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and shows that the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities. In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the book focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.Less
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley in Pakistan and sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. In a similar manner, it is often regarded as a fact that Iran and the Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This book challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic as well as policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim communities and societies. Through case studies of academic institutions, the book illustrates how transmission of ideas is an extremely complex process, and shows that the outcome of such efforts depends not just on the strategies adopted by backers of those ideologies but equally on the characteristics of the receipt communities. In order to understand this complex interaction between the global and local Islam and the plurality in outcomes, the book focuses on the workings of three universities with global outreach whose graduating students carry the ideas acquired during their education back to their own countries, along with, in some cases, a zeal to reform their home society.
Bayram Balci
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190917272
- eISBN:
- 9780190943035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Muslims from Central Asian and the Caucasus have played a central role in the development of a bright Islamic civilization, thanks to several thinkers like Al Buhari and Al Farabi. With the decline ...
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Muslims from Central Asian and the Caucasus have played a central role in the development of a bright Islamic civilization, thanks to several thinkers like Al Buhari and Al Farabi. With the decline of this civilization and the domination of the region by Russian and Soviet rules, local Islam has been completely transformed. A Soviet—and unique—style of Islam has emerged among local societies. Glasnost and perestroika made an Islamic revival possible in the middle of the 1980s. The end of the Soviet Union represented a new turning point for this Islam: local Central Asian and Caucasian Muslims developed various connections and cooperation with diverse Islamic trends from Turkey, Iran, Arab countries and the Indian subcontinent. In sum, with the independence and the emergence of new Republics, Soviet Islam met global Islam and was transform by it.Less
Muslims from Central Asian and the Caucasus have played a central role in the development of a bright Islamic civilization, thanks to several thinkers like Al Buhari and Al Farabi. With the decline of this civilization and the domination of the region by Russian and Soviet rules, local Islam has been completely transformed. A Soviet—and unique—style of Islam has emerged among local societies. Glasnost and perestroika made an Islamic revival possible in the middle of the 1980s. The end of the Soviet Union represented a new turning point for this Islam: local Central Asian and Caucasian Muslims developed various connections and cooperation with diverse Islamic trends from Turkey, Iran, Arab countries and the Indian subcontinent. In sum, with the independence and the emergence of new Republics, Soviet Islam met global Islam and was transform by it.
