Description:
A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context, showing how Muslims in Asia have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so.
Review Quotes:
'It belongs on all postgraduate and undergraduate reading lists on the anthropology of islam and world religions and makes for refreshing comparative reading on a culturally and historically connected region of the Muslim world.' - Magnus Marsden, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2008