• ISBN13: 9780367225377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2022
• Pages: 464
• Original Price: GBP 185.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 912 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Islam / General, Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, and Regional Studies

This handbook explores the ways in which Islam, as one of the fastest growing religions, has become a global faith for both Muslims and non-Muslims in Southeast Asia with its universality, inclusivity, and shared features with other Islamic expressions and manifestations. It offers an up-to-date, wide-ranging, comprehensive, concise, and readable introduction to the field of Islam in Southeast Asia.

With specific themes of pertinent contemporary relevance, the contributions by experts in the field provide fresh insights into the roles of states, societies, scholars, social movements, political parties, economic institutions, sacred sites, and other forces that structured the faith over many centuries. The handbook is structured in three parts:

• Muslim Global Circulations
• Marginal Narratives
• Refashioning Pieties

This handbook stands out as a single and synergistic reference work that explores the ebb and flow of Islam seeking to decenter many existing assumptions about it in Southeast Asia. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and policymakers working on Islam, Muslims, and their interactions with other communities in a plural setting.

Khairudin Aljunied is Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He holds two other adjunct positions as Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. A specialist of the social and intellectual histories of Islam in Southeast Asia, he has published several books. Recent publications include Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (2017), Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World (2018), Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History (2019), and Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia (forthcoming). He is the editor of the book series Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia.