Title:
Shiʻism in Southeast Asia : ʻAlid piety and sectarian constructions / Chiara Formichi, R. Michael Feener (editors).
Author:
Formichi, Chiara, 1982- editor.
Feener, R. Michael, editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015
Call Number:
BP192.7.S644 S55 2015
Abstract:
"This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of ʻAlid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of ʻAlid piety allows for a reframing of our views on the widespread reverence of ʻAli, Fatima and their progeny that emphasizes how such sentiments and associated practices are seen as part of broad traditions shared by many Muslims, which might or might not have their origins in a specifically Shiʻa identity. In doing so, it facilitates the movement of academic discussions out from under the shadow of polemical sectarian discourses on "Shiʻism" in Southeast Asia"--Jacket.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2015510865-t.htmlContributor biographical information https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2015510865-b.html
Publisher description https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1614/2015510865-d.html
ISBN:
9780190264017
9781849044363
Physical Description:
xvi, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Debating 'Shiʻism' in the history of Muslim southeast Asia / Shiʻa devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt in historical perspective / Shiʻism in Thailand: from the Ayutthaya period to the present / Soldier and son-in-law, spreader of the faith and scribe: representations of ʻAlī in Javanese literature / Fāṭima in Nusantara / Penghulu segala perempuan: Fāṭima in Malay didactic texts for women / ʻAlid piety in Bugis texts on proper sexual arts / Sex to the next world: holy descent and restorative sex for the mualad / 'They are the heirs of the Prophet': discourses on the Ahl al-Bayt and religious authority among the Bạ ʻAlawī in modern Indonesia / Locating the descendents of ʻAlī in south-west Aceh: the places of ʻAlīd piety in late twentieth-century Seunagan / ʻAlīd piety and state-sponsored spectacle: tabot tradition in Bengkulu, Sumatra / Burlesquing Muḥarram processions into carnivalesque boria / A taʻziya from twenty-first-century Malaysia: Faisal Tehrani's passion play Karala / Aspects of Shiʻism in contemporary Indonesia: a quest for social recognition in the post-Suharto era (1998-2008) / One big family? Dynamics of interaction among the 'lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt' in modern Java
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