Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Jul 2021 | Princeton University Press | 9780691204314 | 256pp | 234x155mm | RFB | AUD$44.99, NZD$54.99
An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Java This compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders u