AuthorRoff, William R
TitleStudies on Islam and society in Southeast Asia / William R. Roff
Imprint Singapore : National University of Singapore, 2009
Edition 1st ed
Descript xvii, 354 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Islam obsured? some reflections on studies of Islam and society in Southeast Asia -- onomastics, and taxonomies of belonging in the Malay Muslim world -- Islamic movements: one or many? -- the Malayo-Mulsim world of Singapore at the close of the nineteenth century -- patterns of Islamization in Malaysia, 1890s-1990s: exemplars, institutions and vectors -- pondoks, madrasahs and the production of "ulama' in Malaysia -- Indonesian and Malay students in Cairo in the 1920s -- murder as an aid to social history: the Arab community in Singapore in the early twentieth century -- the ins and outs of Hadhrami journalism in Malaya 1900-1941: assimilation or identiry maintenance? -- the origin and early years of the Majlis Agama Kelantan -- the mystery of the first Malay novel (and who was Rokambul?) -- whence cometh the law? dog saliva in Kelantan, 1937 -- sociological interpretations of religious practice: the case of the Hajj -- sanitation and security: the imperial powers and the Hajj in the nineteenth century -- the conduct of the Hajj from Malaya, and the first Malay pilgrimage officer


SUBJECT

  1. Islam -- Southeast Asia -- 19th century
  2. Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia
  3. Muslims -- southeast Asia -- Intellectual life
  4. Islam and civil society -- Southeast Asia
  5. Islam -- Southeast Asia -- 20th century
  6. civil society
  7. Islam -- Southeast Asia

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