Asian Islam in the 21st century
Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most books on contemporary Islam focus on the Middle East, giving short shift to the dynamic and diverse presence of Asian Islam in regional and global politics. The Muslims of Asia constitute the largest Muslim communities in the wor...
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Oxford, UK
Oxford University Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John l. Esposito
- Part I. Religion, politics and society in Muslim majority societies
- Islam in Indonesia in the 21st century / Fred R. von der Mehden
- Pakistan after Islamization : mainstream and militant Islamism in a changing state / Vali Nasr
- Islam, state and society in Bangladesh / Mumtaz Ahmad
- Malaysian Islam in the 21st century : the promise of a democratic transformation? / Osman Bakar
- The trifurcated Islam of Central Asia : a Turkish perspective / Hakan Yavuz
- A provincial Islamist victory in NWFP, Pakistan : the social reform agenda of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal / Anita M. Weiss
- Part II. Ethics and religious politics Muslim minority communities
- Muslims in post-independence India / Steven I. Wilkinson
- Islam in China / Jacqueline Armijo
- The impact of 9/11 among Mindanao Muslims and the Mindanao peace process / Eliseo R. Mercado
- The ethno-religious dimension of the Muslim crisis in Thailand / Imtiyaz Yusuf
- Conclusion: Asian Islam at a crossroads : Islam in Asia at the beginning of the 21st century / John voll.