Scripture and Society in Modern Muslim Asia—A Symposium Introduction

S ince the late nineteenth century, Muslim movements for religious and social reform have underscored the value of making scripture accessible to a broad public. Scholars and activists alike have urged ordinary Muslim men and women to study and follow the Qur'ān and the hadīth (the reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds), and to do so they have rendered these scriptural writings and commentaries on them into the vernaculars of Asia, Africa, and Europe. They have also framed a wide range of appeals—to study the sciences, to modernize society, to stage a revolution—in the language and format of scriptural commentary. Vernacular writings (and, more recently, audio and videocassettes) based on scripture provide the foundations of popular religious education (Shahrani 1991), figure prominently in political movements (Fischer 1980; Kepel 1985), and serve as guides for living for Muslims traveling outside their homelands (Kepel 1987). The modern period has seen an explosion in the range of languages, genres, and contexts in which Muslims have authoritatively deployed scripture

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• Clifford Geertz, Cultural Portraits, and Southeast Asia

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• Female saints and the practice of Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

  Open Access•Alyson Callan•American Ethnologist•2008

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• Islamic Revival in British India

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• The modernist Muslim movement in Indonesia, 1900-1942

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• Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions

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• Knowledge and Power in Morocco

  Open Access•Dale F Eickelman•Knowledge and Power in Morocco•1985

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• Muslims through Discourse

  John Richard Bowen•Muslims Through Discourse•1993

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• Muslim Preacher in the Modern World

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• Colonialism and Culture

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• The Origins of Malay Nationalism

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• Muslim Chinese

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• Sharī 'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam

  Christian W Troll, Katherine Pratt Ewing•Asian Folklore Studies•1989

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• Muslim Extremism in Egypt

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• In Cold Blood

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• Bargaining for Reality. The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community

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• Headhunting, History, and Exchange in Upland Sulawesi

  Open Access•Kenneth M George•The Journal of Asian Studies•1991

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• Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective

  Jo-Ann Gro, Jo-Ann Gross et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1993

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• Language and Power

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• Iran

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• The Mufti, the Text and the World

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