M Slama
Biographic Data
| ID | 14050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Slama |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Slama |
| SIGNATURE | SLAMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2860-9382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Islam, Ambiguity, and (In)Tolerance: Perspectives from Southeast Asia
This introductory article builds on recent historical and anthropological scholarship that highlights the centrality of ambiguity in Islam and how Muslims navigate their religious life. It brings together insights from the anthropology of Islam and Islamic Studies, as well as classic work on Southeast-Asian cosmologies and concepts of power, to develop new insights into Islam’s possible relations to ambiguity and tolerance. Extending this inquiry…
Faithful transformations: Islamic self-help in contemporary Singapore
Exploring wit in oppressive and conflictual environments: The significance of agentic forms of humor
This introduction locates the theme section “Humor, coping, and resistance” in relation to anthropological literature on agency, power, and social suffering as well as the field of humor theory, including anthropological approaches to humor. It asks about the role of humor in theories of agency and, vice versa, the role of agency in theories of humor. Discussing the three case studies, it develops an argument about the significance of agentic for…
Social Media and the Question of Change in Indonesia's Field of Islam
Social media have become part of the everyday life of Indonesian Muslims, which particularly applies to their religious life, since more than a decade now. In the meantime, Islamic uses of and Islamic representations on social media as well as Muslims' perceptions of them have been explored in a considerable number of publications that contribute to our understanding of contemporary trends, dynamics and transformations in Indonesia's field of Isl…
Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post-conflict setting
This paper analyses religion-related humour in the post-conflict setting of the Moluccas, Indonesia, which were haunted by interreligious violence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is concerned with religious puns told among Hadhramis, Indonesians of Arab descent, whose ancestors migrated in pre-colonial and colonial times from the Hadhramaut to the Indonesian archipelago where they occupy influential positions in the Islamic landscape. Build…
Anti-Arab sentiments as 'unwelcome encounters' in a tropical Muslim majority country
In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900–1950) , by Huub de Jonge
Reinterpreting the first pillar of the nation: (Dis)continuities of Islamic discourses about the state ideology in Indonesia
The article analyses discourses of Islamic actors in Indonesia about the state ideology Pancasila (lit. Five Pillars). It discerns three discursive positions that exist in Indonesia since its independence, namely full acceptance of Pancasila as the state ideology, complementing Pancasila with Islamic law, and outright rejection of Pancasila and its replacement by (political interpretations of) Islam. Having a particular focus on the post-Suharto …
Ambon Bay, Moluccas, Indonesia
The island of Ambon, once part of "the Spice Islands", was a nodal point for long-distance trade across the Indian Ocean and subject to European colonial expansion. Today, Ambon City it is the administrative center of the province of the Moluccas, and the island is still home to plurilocal communities that connect this rather peripheral place to other sites of the Indonesian archipelago, the Indian Ocean world and beyond. Taken by Martin Slama in…
Plurilocal Communities in the Indian Ocean World
This special issue is the second of two that have emerged from a conference in Halle, Germany, in September 2019 with the theme ‘Us and them: Diasporas for others in the Indian Ocean.’1 In the introduction to the previous issue, in which we conceptualized the Indian Ocean as a diasporic space, we concluded by observing that a ‘diaspora for others’ could be characterised as plurilocal, ‘a network of spatially dispersed and geographically overlappi…
Rethinking Diasporic Returns: Ḥaḍramī Trajectories in Indonesia’s Religio-political Field
This article calls for a rethinking of the concept of diasporic return in light of contemporary religious and political developments in Indonesia. It does so by exploring two modalities of diasporic returns, namely, re-embedding and re-encountering, neither of which necessarily involve transnational travel or any notion of an ancestral homeland, but both of which are nevertheless important to the process of diasporization. Based on ethnographic o…
Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms: An Introduction
This introductory article to the special issue Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms discusses the latest transformations in the field of Islam in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on digital media. It introduces the three key themes – ambivalence, discontent, divides – through which the special issue approaches contemporary socioreligious phenomena in Islamic Southeast Asia as they find their expres…
Tracing Digital Divides in Indonesian Islam: Ambivalences of Media and Class
The article examines questions of the digital divide from a religious perspective. It asks about the consequences of unequal access to and limitations on uses of social media among Indonesian Muslims with regard to their Islamic practice and sociality. The article concentrates on two phenomena: Islamic preachers and their affective‐cum‐economic relationship with their followers who are often organized in Islamic study groups; and online Qur'an re…
Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia, by Emma Baulch
The Indian Ocean as Diasporic Space: A conceptual introduction
Over the past two decades there has been a growing interest in Indian Ocean networks within diaspora studies, and within migration studies more generally. In this introduction we develop the idea of the Indian Ocean as a space within which diasporas come into being, endure, and sustain relationships. Taking this Indian Ocean perspective, we suggest that the concept of the diaspora as currently employed in scholarship could be strengthened and we …
Accelerating Islamic charities in Indonesia: Zakat , sedekah and the immediacy of social media
The article describes the latest developments of Islamic charities and their role as major non-state actors in Indonesia's field of social welfare. It considers debates about the practices of Islamic charity in colonial and post-colonial times when zakat (obligatory almsgiving) was conceptualized as social welfare and as a tool for social justice or as an instrument to implement the post-colonial state's development goals. We examine the contempo…
Practising Islam through social media in Indonesia
In recent years, one of the most significant shifts in the field of Islam in Indonesia is the increasing reliance of Muslims on social media when practising their faith. To a certain extent, media
Online piety and its discontent: Revisiting Islamic anxieties on Indonesian social media
In today’s digital age, many Indonesian Muslims utilise social media, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), to express their piety. However, their religious online practices are not devoid of ambiguities, discontents and tensions. The article focuses on these specific consequences of being digitally pious in Indonesia. It examines how riyā’, an established concept in Islamic theology that refers to showing off one’s piety, ha…
Hearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam, by Julian Millie
A subtle economy of time: Social media and the transformation of Indonesia's Islamic preacher economy
The article is concerned with the latest developments in Indonesia's Islamic field. Its focus is on the role of social media in exchange relationships between Islamic preachers and their constituency. The article first discusses economic exchanges between preachers and their followers, and then it concentrates on social exchanges and how they are mediated today. Empirically, the article delivers insight into the concerns of mostly female Indonesi…
Rebranding Islam. Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru, written by James Bourk Hoesterey
From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities – An Introduction
Indonesian Hadhramis and the Hadhramaut: An Old Diaspora and its New Connections
Fase utama dari migrasi Hadrami (pertengahan abad ke-18 hingga ke-20) telah mendapat perhatian ilmuwan-ilmuwan dari berbagai latar belakang disiplin. Berdasarkan atas hasil karya ilmiah inidan mengacu pada teori-teori kontemporer di bidang Antropologi mengenai diaspora masyarakat dan hubungan-hubungan antarbangsa serta penelitian terbaru di Indonesia dalam tiga tahun terakhir, artikel ini memfokuskan pada hubungan-hubungan dikalangan Hadramis dan…
Marriage as Crisis: Revisiting a Major Dispute among Hadhramis in Indonesia
Digital ethnography: Anthropology, narrative, and new media by Underberg, Natalie M. and Elayne Zorn
A subtle economy of time: Social media and the transformation of Indonesia's Islamic preacher economy
The article is concerned with the latest developments in Indonesia's Islamic field. Its focus is on the role of social media in exchange relationships between Islamic preachers and their constituency. The article first discusses economic exchanges between preachers and their followers, and then it concentrates on social exchanges and how they are mediated today. Empirically, the article delivers insight into the concerns of mostly female Indonesi…
Accelerating Islamic charities in Indonesia: Zakat , sedekah and the immediacy of social media
The article describes the latest developments of Islamic charities and their role as major non-state actors in Indonesia's field of social welfare. It considers debates about the practices of Islamic charity in colonial and post-colonial times when zakat (obligatory almsgiving) was conceptualized as social welfare and as a tool for social justice or as an instrument to implement the post-colonial state's development goals. We examine the contempo…
Translocal Networks and Globalisation within Indonesia: Exploring the Hadhrami Diaspora from the Archipelago’s North-East
Rethinking Diasporic Returns: Ḥaḍramī Trajectories in Indonesia’s Religio-political Field
This article calls for a rethinking of the concept of diasporic return in light of contemporary religious and political developments in Indonesia. It does so by exploring two modalities of diasporic returns, namely, re-embedding and re-encountering, neither of which necessarily involve transnational travel or any notion of an ancestral homeland, but both of which are nevertheless important to the process of diasporization. Based on ethnographic o…
The Indian Ocean as Diasporic Space: A conceptual introduction
Over the past two decades there has been a growing interest in Indian Ocean networks within diaspora studies, and within migration studies more generally. In this introduction we develop the idea of the Indian Ocean as a space within which diasporas come into being, endure, and sustain relationships. Taking this Indian Ocean perspective, we suggest that the concept of the diaspora as currently employed in scholarship could be strengthened and we …
Coming Down to the Shop: Trajectories of Hadhrami Women into Indonesian Public Realms
This article is concerned with the trajectories of Indonesian women of Hadhrami-Arab descent into public realms. It enquires how their agency has developed out of a particular diasporic tradition that has brought a gender order to colonial Indonesia characterised by a rigid division of public and domestic domains. In Indonesia, Hadhrami concepts of the public and domestic encountered local and governmental gender regimes and experienced considera…
Paths of Institutionalization, Varying Divisions, and Contested Radicalisms: Comparing Hadhrami Communities on Java and Sulawesi
The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial administration to constrain the mobility of Hadhramis were not as strictly implemented as on Java, which contributed to different settlement and integration patterns on th…
Comparing Arab Diasporas: Post-9/11 and Historical Perspectives on Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese Communities in Southeast Asia and the Americas
This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue’s special section “Comparing Arab Diasporas.” The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials of comparative research in the study of diasporas. The article also reviews the body of contemporary work on diasporas and its use of comparative analytical approaches. It discusses in mo…
Genealogical Avenues, Long-Distance Flows and Social Hierarchy: Hadramī Migrants in the Indonesian Diaspora
The article reflects on the role of genealogy in the process of Hadramī migration to Indonesia and explores the relation between genealogy and the construction of hierarchy and identity among diaspora Hadramīs. In addition to persons and ideas travelling along genealogical networks from the Hadramawt to Indonesia, the authors examine long-distance flows originating from Middle Eastern centres of Islamic learning, which were used to question a gen…
The changing world of Bali. Religion, society and tourism by Howe, Leo
The graves of Tarim. Genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean by Ho, Engseng: Reviews
Burials, texts and rituals. Ethnoarchaeological investigations in North Bali, Indonesia edited by Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta and I Wayan Ardika
The agency of the heart: Internet chatting as youth culture in Indonesia
Genealogical Avenues, Long-Distance Flows and Social Hierarchy: Hadramī Migrants in the Indonesian Diaspora
The article reflects on the role of genealogy in the process of Hadramī migration to Indonesia and explores the relation between genealogy and the construction of hierarchy and identity among diaspora Hadramīs. In addition to persons and ideas travelling along genealogical networks from the Hadramawt to Indonesia, the authors examine long-distance flows originating from Middle Eastern centres of Islamic learning, which were used to question a gen…
Hadrami Arabs in present-day Indonesia. An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature by Jacobsen, Frode F
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Translocal Networks and Globalisation within Indonesia: Exploring the Hadhrami Diaspora from the Archipelago’s North-East
Paths of Institutionalization, Varying Divisions, and Contested Radicalisms: Comparing Hadhrami Communities on Java and Sulawesi
The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial administration to constrain the mobility of Hadhramis were not as strictly implemented as on Java, which contributed to different settlement and integration patterns on th…
Comparing Arab Diasporas: Post-9/11 and Historical Perspectives on Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese Communities in Southeast Asia and the Americas
This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue’s special section “Comparing Arab Diasporas.” The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials of comparative research in the study of diasporas. The article also reviews the body of contemporary work on diasporas and its use of comparative analytical approaches. It discusses in mo…
Coming Down to the Shop: Trajectories of Hadhrami Women into Indonesian Public Realms
This article is concerned with the trajectories of Indonesian women of Hadhrami-Arab descent into public realms. It enquires how their agency has developed out of a particular diasporic tradition that has brought a gender order to colonial Indonesia characterised by a rigid division of public and domestic domains. In Indonesia, Hadhrami concepts of the public and domestic encountered local and governmental gender regimes and experienced considera…
Indonesian Hadhramis and the Hadhramaut: An Old Diaspora and its New Connections
Fase utama dari migrasi Hadrami (pertengahan abad ke-18 hingga ke-20) telah mendapat perhatian ilmuwan-ilmuwan dari berbagai latar belakang disiplin. Berdasarkan atas hasil karya ilmiah inidan mengacu pada teori-teori kontemporer di bidang Antropologi mengenai diaspora masyarakat dan hubungan-hubungan antarbangsa serta penelitian terbaru di Indonesia dalam tiga tahun terakhir, artikel ini memfokuskan pada hubungan-hubungan dikalangan Hadramis dan…
Marriage as Crisis: Revisiting a Major Dispute among Hadhramis in Indonesia
Digital ethnography: Anthropology, narrative, and new media by Underberg, Natalie M. and Elayne Zorn
From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities – An Introduction
Rebranding Islam. Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru, written by James Bourk Hoesterey
A subtle economy of time: Social media and the transformation of Indonesia's Islamic preacher economy
The article is concerned with the latest developments in Indonesia's Islamic field. Its focus is on the role of social media in exchange relationships between Islamic preachers and their constituency. The article first discusses economic exchanges between preachers and their followers, and then it concentrates on social exchanges and how they are mediated today. Empirically, the article delivers insight into the concerns of mostly female Indonesi…
Practising Islam through social media in Indonesia
In recent years, one of the most significant shifts in the field of Islam in Indonesia is the increasing reliance of Muslims on social media when practising their faith. To a certain extent, media
Online piety and its discontent: Revisiting Islamic anxieties on Indonesian social media
In today’s digital age, many Indonesian Muslims utilise social media, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), to express their piety. However, their religious online practices are not devoid of ambiguities, discontents and tensions. The article focuses on these specific consequences of being digitally pious in Indonesia. It examines how riyā’, an established concept in Islamic theology that refers to showing off one’s piety, ha…
Hearing Allah's Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam, by Julian Millie
Accelerating Islamic charities in Indonesia: Zakat , sedekah and the immediacy of social media
The article describes the latest developments of Islamic charities and their role as major non-state actors in Indonesia's field of social welfare. It considers debates about the practices of Islamic charity in colonial and post-colonial times when zakat (obligatory almsgiving) was conceptualized as social welfare and as a tool for social justice or as an instrument to implement the post-colonial state's development goals. We examine the contempo…
Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms: An Introduction
This introductory article to the special issue Ambivalence, Discontent, and Divides in Southeast Asia's Islamic Digital Realms discusses the latest transformations in the field of Islam in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on digital media. It introduces the three key themes – ambivalence, discontent, divides – through which the special issue approaches contemporary socioreligious phenomena in Islamic Southeast Asia as they find their expres…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (21 works) · Asian Studies and History (20 works) · History (18 works) · Islam (17 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (10 works)