Piety, politics, and everyday ethics in Southeast Asian Islam : beautiful behaviour /
"This book explores the diversity and dynamism of Islam in Southeast Asia through the concept of adab, or beautiful behavior. Amid the complexity of Islamic civilization, adab provides Muslims with a shared sense of sacred history, identity, and morality. In the context of Islamic ethics, adab...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: |
2020. ©2019 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"This book explores the diversity and dynamism of Islam in Southeast Asia through the concept of adab, or beautiful behavior. Amid the complexity of Islamic civilization, adab provides Muslims with a shared sense of sacred history, identity, and morality. In the context of Islamic ethics, adab defines the rules of personal and public etiquette: good manners, proper conduct, civility and humaneness. Featuring the interdisciplinary research of nine prominent scholars of Islam, the book offers new perspectives on adab's multiple meanings and myriad applications for Muslim communities in Malaysia and Indonesia. The chapters examine a wide range of texts, spotlighting the writings of prominent Muslim thinkers, and contexts, focusing on the everyday experiences of lay Muslims. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses, the essays reveal how beautiful behavior impacts local institutions, cultural practices, and religious imaginations via politics and law, spirituality and piety, ethics and experience. With its careful textual analysis, detailed case studies, and attention to historical continuities and disjunctures, Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam is essential reading for students and scholars interested in global Islam and the lived, local dynamics of Muslim Southeast Asia."-- Publisher's website |
Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain 2019. Paperback edition published 2020" |
Carrier Form: | xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781350170124 1350170127 9781350041714 1350041718 |
Index Number: | BP63 |
CLC: |
B963 B968 |
Call Number: | B968/P626 |