Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Editorial Board
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I Frames
	1 Studying Islam: The View From Asia
		Muslims in Asia
		Becoming and Being Muslim
		Beyond the Center-Periphery Dichotomy
			How to Read this Volume
		Notes
		References
	2 Minoritization, Racialization, and Islam in Asia
		Defining Our Theoretical Terms: Minoritization and Racialization
		Theory Applied: 1857 Rebellion, Minoritization, and Racialization
		Ongoing History: Racialization and Minoritization in China
		Conclusion: Racialization and Minoritization of Muslims in Asia
		Notes
		References
	3 The Five Pillars and Indonesia’s Musical Soundscape
		Methodology
		Colonial Hearings of Southeast Asia and the Many Islams of Islam Nusantara
		Resonant Praxis Through the Five Pillars
			The Shahada, Salat, and Other Recitations
			Ramadan: Fasting and Feasting
			Zakat Tax
			Hajj Pilgrimage
		What’s Music Got to Do With It?
		Women’s Agency in the Muslim Musical Soundscape
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	4 Islam and Sanskritic Imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia
		From Syncretism to Translation
		Terminologies and Translation
		Poetics and Imaginaires
		Language, Literature, Community
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	5 Islamic Feminisms in Asia: Trials and Tribulations for Muslim Women
		Islam and “Westernization”
			Religious Piety and Veiling
		Brief Overview of Muslimization in Asian Countries
		Hegemony of Arabization Or Saudi Islam
		Islamic Feminism
		Non-Islamic/western/secular Feminism
		Conclusions and Persistent Dilemmas
		Notes
		References
Part II Authority and Authorizing Practices
	6 Eastern African Doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic Intellectual Interactions
		A Jurist, an Agent, and an Endower
		The Larger Network
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	7 The Making of Qīz Bībī in Central Asia’s Oral Shrine Traditions: From the Great Lady to a Fourteen-Year-Old Virgin
		The Ḥikayat-I Qīz Bībī: The Story of a Virgin Girl
		The Shrine of Qīz Bībī
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	8 The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and Narrative in Highland Asia
		Introduction
		Community and Conversion in Central Asia
		Conversion Narratives in Central Asia
		The Role of Sufis in Conversion Narratives
		Ismailis and Conversion in Central Asia
		Ismaili Conversion Narratives From Badakhshan
			ʿAli’s Battle With Qahqahah
			NNāṣir-i Khusraw and Malik Jahanshah
			Shāh Khāmūsh and the coming of Islam to Shughnān
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9 Islamic Law in Xinjiang
		Introduction
		The Early Islamic Period in Xinjiang (Tenth Century–eighteenth Century)
		Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang (1759–1933)
			High Qing Xinjiang (1759–1864)
			The “Muslim Uprisings” and Interregnum (1864–1878)
			Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang (1877–1934)
		Late Republican and Revolutionary Xinjiang (1934–1955)
		Afterlives of Islamic Law in the People’s Republic of China (1955–present)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Major Turning Points for Shiʿi Islam in Modern South Asia: Princely States, Partition, and a Revolution
		Political Power, Shiʿism, and Princely States
			Shi.ism and Political Power in the Deccan and North India
			Early Modern Sectarian Conflict
			Awadh’s Influence Beyond India
			Shi.is, the Public Sphere, and Colonial Indian Modernity
		The Impact of Partition On Shi.ism in India and Pakistan
		The Implications of a Revolution
		Conclusion: Where Do We Go From There?
		Notes
		References
	11 Making Islamic Finance in South Asia: The State, the Seminary, and the Business Corporation
		Introduction: Religious and Financial Assemblages
		An Islamicate Cosmopolitanism: Law and Commerce in the Indian Ocean
		Colonialism, Globalization, and Pakistan’s State–capital–religion Assemblage
		Islamization of Pakistan’s Economy and the Birth of Islamic Banking
		Pakistan’s Deobandis and the Madrasa–Islamic Finance Alliance
		Standardization and the Legal Transformation of Islamic Law
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	12 In the Halal Zones of Malaysia and Singapore
		Halal in Southeast Asia
		Making Modern Halal Markets
		Halal in Malaysia
		Halal in Singapore
		Teams and Training
			Malaysia
			Singapore
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
Part III Muslim Spatialities
	13 South Asian Shiʿi Sacred Geography: Tracing ʿAli’s Footprints
		Introduction
		From Adam to ʿAli: Imprinting Shiʿi Sacred Geography in South Asia
		Dargah Shah-E Mardan, New Delhi
		Koh-e Moula ʿAli, Hyderabad
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	14 Muslim Pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints Among the Rice Fields
		Reconsidering Islamic Pilgrimage
		Southeast Asia: Islam, Politics, and Pilgrimage
		Disappearing Keramat in Malaysia and Singapore
		Islands of the Wali
		Conclusions
		References
	15 Ḥaḍramī Sufi-Scholars and Their Shrines in Southeast Asia: A Geography of Sanctity
		The Crown of Brides
		Sacred Valleys, Worldly Destination
		Sufi Migrants in Distant Islands
		Slices of Ḥaḍramawt
		Geography of Sanctity
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	16 Sacred Spaces and the Making of Sufism in Sri Lanka: Between Violence and Piety
		Sufi Shrines as a Lens for the Study of Islam in Sri Lanka
		Contextualizing the Political and Social Milieu of Sri Lanka
		The Shared Sacred Geographies of Sarandib
			Adam’s Peak
			Dafther Jailani
			Kataragama
		Contestation and Negotiation at Local Sufi Shrines
			The Case of Payvilan and the Violence of Anti-Sufism
			The Patron Saint of Slave Island: Hussein Bee Bee
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	17 Muslim Interactions Between Central Asia, China, and Imperial Japan
		Placing Muslims Into the Story of the Japanese Empire
		The Nineteenth Century: Beginnings of a New Relationship
		The Twentieth Century: Pre-Manchukuo and Post-Manchukuo
		The Volga Tatars and Other Muslims in Japan
		Muslims On the Move With the Help of the Japanese Empire
		Afghanistan in the Japanese Imperial Imagination
		Conclusions
		Note
		References
	18 Mosque Architecture and Decoration in China
		Beginnings
		China’s Earliest Islamic Decorative Objects and Architecture
		Muslim Architecture in Ming China
		Ming–Qing Architecture and Decoration in North-West China
		Conclusions
		References
Part IV Imaginations of Piety
	19 Mapping the Trajectory of Islam in Chinese Terms: Community Matters
		Introduction
		Intellectual Genealogies and Chinese Islam
		From Genealogy to Regionalism
		Contemporary Legacy of Liu Zhi’s Regionalism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	20 The “Moral Background” of Work in Central Asia: The Sacred in the Mundane
		The Scripturalization of a Vernacular Genre: The Codices of Conduct for Craftsmanship (Risāla)
		The Semiotics of Licit Work
		Ethics Embodied: Adab, Labor and Its Spiritual Topography
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	21 Pious Lives of Soviet Muslims
		Pious Life, Private Life
		Setting 1: A Hypothetical Exchange
		Setting 2: A Hospital
		Setting 3: A Collective Farm
		Conclusion
		References
	22 Two Deobandi Views On Being Muslim in India: Indian Bodies, Meccan Hearts
		Introduction
		Situating “India”
		The Campaigner: Husain Ahmad Madani (1879–1957)
		The Reformer: Ashraf ‘Ali Thanvi (1863–1943)
		Beyond Essentialism, Beyond Syncretism
		Notes
		References
	23 The Tablighi Jama’at Movement in Maritime Southeast Asia: Piety in Motion
		The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jama’at: A Pan-Asian Lay Missionary Movement in Perpetual Motion
		Lay Piety in Action: From Texts to Norms
		Piety in a Globalized World: The Tablighi Jama’at Today
		Apolitical By Nature? The Tablighi Jama’at’s Curious Relationship with/to Power and Politics
		Salvation Or Fatalism? The Persistent View of the Tablighi Jama’at as Pious Fatalists
		A Movement Without Solutions? The Tablighi Jama’at in the Constellation of Muslim Thought
		Notes
		References
	24 A Tree Enrooted: African Sufi Saints as “Lineage Deities” of a Muslim Community of East African Ancestry in Western ...
		The Intervention of the Saints: Bava Gor as Protector of the Sidi Community
		Bava Gor as “Lineage God (Kuldevta)” of the Sidi Community
		Mai Misra as Lineage Saint (Kulpir) and Lineage Goddess (Kuldevi) of the Sidi Community
		The Kalaswali Khichri and the Aniconic Embodiment of Mai Misra
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Index