Islam in Southeast Asia, (4 Volume Set)

The Islamic community in Southeast Asia is widely regarded as one of the most moderate and tolerant in the Muslim world. While most of the region’s Muslims are Sunni and fairly orthodox, the Islamic faith as practised in the region has historically been a syncretic blend of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and folk religions. The syncretic roots of Southeast Asian Islam also underscores the pluralistic nature of Islam in the region today, where Muslims have generally lived peacefully in religiously mixed communities, even in areas where they constituted a large majority.

Alongside these pluralistic trends in Southeast Asian Islam are some alternative streams of social-political activism that threaten its traditionally inclusivist character. While most Southeast Asian Muslims are known for their moderation, there has historically been a very small but vocal minority who have been drawn to the more puritanical or extremist variants of the faith. In addition, there is a gradual but clearly discernible trend of conservatism among the general Muslim population, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia, which has given rise to exclusivist attitudes towards non-Muslims.

The material gathered in Volume I of this new Routledge collection focuses on the historical, cultural, sociological, theological, and intellectual aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia. Volume II, meanwhile, assesses trends in Muslim politics in Southeast Asia, investigating the success and failure of political Islam in the Muslim-majority cases of Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the Muslim-minority contexts of Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore.

Volume III identifies and analyses the primary actors and agents that are involved in the formation and development of a burgeoning pan-regional parallel civil society network bringing together religiously inspired Islamist NGOs, civil society actors and agencies, the media, professionals’ associations, and political parties; the work collected here charts out a virtual map of the new Islamist activist geography of Southeast Asia. Finally, Volume IV examines the nexus between Islam, politics, and terrorism in the aftermath of the Bali bombings of 2002. It also interrogates the interaction between mainstream political Islam and more extremist fringes of the Islamic communities across the region, as well as domestic and international factors driving radicalism.

Fully indexed and with an introduction newly written by the editors that comprehensively places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, this new Routledge Major Work is an essential research and teaching resource.

Volume I : SouTheast Asian Islam : Histories, Cultures, and Identities

Chapter 1 : Finding The Equilibrium for Dispute Resolution : How Brunei Darussalam Balances a British Legacy With Its Malay and Islamic Identity’, International Trade and Business Law Annual
Chapter 2 : The Influential Legacy of Dutch Islamic Policy on The Formation of Zakat (Alms) Law in Modern Indonesia’, Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal
Chapter 3 : The Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Law : A Serious Response to Acehnese Separatism?’, Asian Ethnicity
Chapter 4 : Current Issues in Indonesian Islam : Analysing The 2005 Council of Indonesian Ulama Fatwa No : 7 Opposing Pluralism, Liberalism and Secularism’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 5 : Nahdlatul Ulama and Collective Ijtihad’, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 6 : The Coming of Islam to The East Indies’, Journal of The Malayan Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society
Chapter 7 : Adat and Islam : An Examination of Conflict in Minangkabau’, Indonesia
Chapter 8 : Indonesia : Islam and Cultural Pluralism’, in John L : Esposito (ed.), Islam in Asia : Religion, Politics and Society
Chapter 9 : Religion and Development in SouTheast Asia : A Comparative Study’, World Development
Chapter 10 : The Introduction of Islam in Champa’, Journal of The Malayan Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society
Chapter 11 : Women, Divorce, and Islam in Kedah’, Sojourn
Chapter 12 : Reconstructing Self and Society : Javanese Muslim Women and The Veil’, American Ethnologist
Chapter 13 : The New Spiritualities, East and West : Colonial Legacies and The Global Spiritual Marketplace in SouTheast Asia’, Australian Religion Studies Review
Chapter 14 : SouTheast Asia and Islam’, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 15 : The New Muslim Romance : Changing Patterns of Courtship and Marriage Among Educated Javanese Youth’, Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies
Chapter 16 : Cambodia’s Muslim King : Khmer and Dutch Sources on The Conversion of Reameathipadei I, 1642–1658’, Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies
Chapter 17 : Crescent Moon : Islamic Art and Civilisation in SouTheast Asia’, Material Religion : The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief
Chapter 18 : Islam and Democracy in Thailand : Reforming The Office of Chularajmontri/Shaikh Al-Isläm’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 19 : Debates and Impressions of Change and Continuity in Indonesia’s Musical Arts Since The Fall of Suharto, 1998–2002’, Wacana Seni

Volume II : Muslim Politics in SouTheast Asia : Discourses and Practices

Chapter 20 : Political Islam in Indonesia : Present and Future Trajectory’, Asian Survey
Chapter 21 : Indonesia’s Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid as Intellectual Ulama : The Meeting of Islamic Traditionalism and Modernism in Neo-Modernist Thought’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Chapter 22 : Civil Islam, Democratisation, and Violence in Indonesia : A Comment’, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
Chapter 23 : Blood, Sweat, and Jihad : The Radicalization of The Political Discourse of The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from 1982 Onwards’, Contemporary SouTheast Asia
Chapter 24 : Exigency or Expediency : Contextualising Political Islam and The PAS Challenge in Malaysian Politics’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 25 : Constructing an Islamic Model in Two Malaysian States : PAS Rule in Kelantan and Terengganu’, Sojourn
Chapter 26 : Political Islam in Malaysia : Problematising Discourse and Practice in The UMNO-PAS "Islamisation Race"’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Chapter 27 : The Masyumi Legacy : Between Islamist Idealism and Political Exigency’, Studia Islamika
Chapter 28 : The Keris, The Crescent and The Blind Goddess : The State, Islam and The Constitution in Malaysia’, Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law
Chapter 29 : Religion and The Indonesian Constitution : A Recent Debate’, Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies
Chapter 30 : The State-Moro Armed Conflict in The Philippines : Unresolved National Question or Question of Governance’, Asian Journal of Political Science
Chapter 31 : Thaksin and The Resurgence of Violence in The Thai South : Network Monarchy Strikes Back?’, Critical Asian Studies
Chapter 32 : How Committed is PAS to Democracy and How Do We Know It?’, Contemporary SouTheast Asia
Chapter 33 : The Salafi Movement in Indonesia : Transnational Dynamics and Local Development’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and The Middle East
Chapter 34 : New Karma : Buddhism and Democratization in Thailand, Religious Organizations and Democratization : Case Studies from Contemporary Asia
Chapter 35 : Politics, Islam, and Public Opinion’, Journal of Democracy
Chapter 36 : Regional Sharia Regulations in Indonesia : Anomaly or Symptom?, Expressing Islam : Religious Life and Politics in Indonesia

Volume III : Betwixt Local and Global : Islamic Civil Society in SouTheast Asia

Chapter 37 : Islam and Economic Development in New Order’s Indonesia (1967–1998)
Chapter 38 : Islam and Economic Development in Malaysia—A Reappraisal’, Journal of Islamic Studies
Chapter 39 : ‘TV on The Border : Broadcasting and Malay Identity in SouThern Thailand’, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
Chapter 40 : Islam as a Symbolic Commodity : Transmitting and Consuming Islam through Public Sermon in Indonesia, Religious Commodifications in Asia Marketing Gods
Chapter 41 : The Tangled Roots of Islamist Activism in SouTheast Asia’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Chapter 42 : The Influence of Mawdudi’s Thought on Muslims in SouTheast Asia : A Brief Survey’, The Muslim World
Chapter 43 : Women and Revolution : Philippine Muslim Women’s Participation in The Moro National Liberation Front’, The Muslim World
Chapter 44 : The Transmission of Al-Manar’s Reformism to The Malay-Indonesian World : The Cases of al-Imam and al-Manir’, Studia Islamika
Chapter 45 : Islam and Modernity : Nurcholish Madjid’s Interpretation of Civil Society, Pluralism, Secularization, and Democracy’, Asian Journal of Social Science
Chapter 46 : Islam and State : A Study of The Liberal Islamic Network in Indonesia, 1999–2004’, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 47 : Voices from Pattani : Fears, Suspicions, and Confusion’, Critical Asian Studies
Chapter 48 : Aspects of Shi’ism in Contemporary SouTheast Asia’, The Muslim World
Chapter 49 : Islam and Citizenship Education in Singapore’, Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice
Chapter 50 : Changing Roles, Unchanging Perceptions and Institutions : Traditionalism and its Impact on Women and Globalization in Muslim Societies in Asia’, The Muslim World
Chapter 51 : Playboy Indonesia and The Media : Commerce and The Islamic Public Sphere on Trial in Indonesia’, South East Asia Research
Chapter 52 : Taste, Talent, and The Problem of Internalization : A Qur’anic Study in Religious Musicality from SouTheast Asia’, History of Religions
Chapter 53 : Supplicating, Naming, Offering : Tawassul in West Java’, Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies
Chapter 54 : Islam and Nation Building in SouTheast Asia : Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective’, Pacific Affairs
Chapter 55 : Indonesian Women and Political Islam’, Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies

Volume IV : The Myth of The ‘Second Front’ : Muslim SouTheast Asia and The War on Terror

Chapter 56 : The Origins of The Java War, 1825–1830’, The English Historical Review
Chapter 57 : Genealogies of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia’, South East Asia Research
Chapter 58 : Islam and Society in SouTheast Asia after 11 September’, Australian Journal of International Affairs
Chapter 59 : Laskar Jihad and The Political Position of Conservative Islam in Indonesia’, Contemporary SouTheast Asia
Chapter 60 : Tentacles of Terror : Al Qaeda’s SouTheast Asian Network’, Contemporary SouTheast Asia
Chapter 61 : Saints, Scholars, and The Idealized Past in Philippine Muslim Separatism’, The Pacific Review
Chapter 62 : Political Terrorism in SouTheast Asia’, Pointer
Chapter 63 : The Road Less Travelled : Islamic Militancy in SouTheast Asia’, Critical Asian Studies
Chapter 64 : Deconstructing Jihad : SouTheast Asian Contexts’, IDSS Working Papers Series No : 49
Chapter 65 : International Jihad and Islamic Radicalism in Thailand? Toward an Alternative Explanation’, Asia Policy
Chapter 66 : War on Error and The SouThern Fire : How Terrorism Analysts Got It Wrong’, Critical Asian Studies
Chapter 67 : On The "Anxiety of Incompleteness" : A Post-Structuralist Approach to Religious Violence in Indonesia’, South East Asia Research
Chapter 68 : Ethno-Religious Conflicts : Rise or Decline? Recent Developments in SouTheast Asia’, Contemporary SouTheast Asia
Chapter 69 : Terrorism in SouTheast Asia : Expert Analysis, Myopia and Fantasy’, The Pacific Review
Chapter 70 : Review of Laskar Jihad : Islam, Militancy and The Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia by Noorhaidi Hasan’, Islamic Law and Society
Chapter 71 : Imam Samudra’s Justification for Bali Bombing’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Chapter 72 : The Myth of The Second Front : Localizing The "War on Terror" in SouTheast Asia’, The Washington Quarterly
Chapter 73 : The Sword Against The Crescent : Religion and Violence in Muslim SouTheast Asia, Religion and Conflict in South and SouTheast Asia : Disrupting Violence