Philipp Bruckmayr
Biographic Data
| ID | 364087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Bruckmayr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruckmayr |
| SIGNATURE | BRUCKMAYR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3060-8147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
The Māturīdī Tradition of Tafsīr
Despite increasing scholarly interest in the Māturīdī school of dialectic theology and Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī’s Qur’an commentary among scholars of the history of kalam (rational theology) and tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis), respectively, comparatively little attention has been devoted so far to the role of Qur’anic exegesis among later representatives of the school and to its relevance for the elaboration and transmission of Māturīdī thought in gene…
The Long Shadow of Malay kitab jawi Publishing in the Hejaz and Cairo
Between the 1880s and 1960s an industry for the production of Islamic books in the Malay language and its adaptation of the Arabic script, the so-called kitab jawi , developed in the Hejaz and Cairo. It was the result of collaboration by Malay authors and editors, Arab and Ottoman state presses and private publishers, and local booksellers, many of whom were of Indian descent. This study identifies the key actors in kitab jawi publishing in the H…
Qur’an Translations in African American (Post-)Muslim Movements
Due to their situatedness in a particular Western English-speaking environment, African American Muslims primarily received, engaged with, and employed the Qur'an through the vehicle of English translations. Contrary to what is often assumed, the Qur'an has played a key role in the formulation of the doctrines of the various African American Muslim movements, including among early representatives, such as the Nation of Islam. What is more, differ…
At the Intersection of uṣūl al-fiqh and kalām
Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346) was the last major Māturīdī theologian of Transoxania. As he left no work of rational theology (kalām) proper, one of the chief sources of his theological thought is his book on legal theory, al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ. Because the work served as a prominent reference for both legal theory and rational theology, an extensive commentary tradition on it emerged as it was transmitted from …
Facing Mecca from Java
Between the 1870s and 1902, the Jakarta-based Sayyid ʽUthmān b. ʽAbd Allāh al-ʽAlawī wrote two epistles on the correct establishment of the qibla . Questions on the qibla and, controversially, on correcting the faulty direction of prayer in several mosques in Southeast Asia, surfaced in the late 18th century and reappeared periodically until well into the 20th century. Seeking to change the established qibla of a mosque represented not only a str…
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Representing Islam. Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation. Bloomington
The study of the relationship between Islam/Muslims and hip-hop culture has gained increasing attention in recent years. This development has been related mostly to two factors: firstly, a growing awareness of the relevance of (primarily, but not exclusively, Black) Muslims and Islamic references in American hip-hop and rap music; and, secondly, the rise of hip-hop in the Arab and Muslim worlds, which was epitomized by the prominent role of rappe…
Salafī Challenge and Māturīdī Response
Salafī refutations of Sunnī kalām have long been focused almost exclusively on the Ashʿariyya. In recent decades, however, Salafī authors and activists have also turned their attention towards the Māturīdī current, which has been historically predominant in those parts of the Muslim world dominated by the Ḥanafī madhhab . In the present article, the characteristics of the Salafī challenge to the Māturīdiyya are presented and the main factors behi…
Introduction
Over the last decade or so, "Salafism" seems to have tacitly replaced the spectres of "Islamism" and "Islamic fundamentalism" in the lexicon of public media, of politicians on every level, of law enforcement agencies, and, subsequently, of the general public, especially in what these days is labelled the "Global North". While select publications had already appeared in the first years of the 2000s, it was a volume edited by Roel Meijer which, in …
Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World
In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia's Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia's Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 199…
Divergent processes of localization in twenty-first-century Shiʿism
This contribution discusses two striking twenty-first-century cases of the global spread of Shiʿism beyond the Middle East, with a particular focus on accompanying processes of localization. On the arid Guajira Peninsula shared by Colombia and Venezuela, Teodoro Darnott, a self-declared liberator of an indigenous people, has framed Shiʿism as a revolutionary ideology that helps justify the Wayúu people’s struggle for self-determination. In Cambod…
The Birth of the Kan Imam San
The Cambodian state is unique in Southeast Asia, due to its official recognition of two distinct Islamic religious communities, whose separate existence is entirely unrelated to the Sunni-Shia divide characterizing Muslim sectarian relations in many countries of the Middle East. Whereas the great majority of Cambodian Muslims, which primarily consist of ethnic Chams, is represented by the Mufti of Cambodia, a second officially recognized Islamic …
From Anatolia to Aceh
The Shi'a in Modern South Asia
Cambodian Muslims, Transnational NGOs, and International Justice
The genocide perpetrated by the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime, more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, against Cambodian Muslims between 1975 and 1979 is currently among the main charges faced b
The Particular Will (al-irādat al-juz'iyya)
The emergence of the notion of the particular will (al-irādat al-juz’iyya) and similar terms remains a largely overlooked late development in the discussion of human agency within the field of kalām. Although absent as a terminus technicus from classical Māturīdi-Ḥanafi works, it became standard usage in many Ottoman and post-Ottoman texts, beginning in the 17th century. Intriguingly, it seems as if the notion and concept of the particular will g…
From Dialogue to Collaboration
Conferences focusing on the thought of Fethullah Gülen, especially the activitiesof the faith-based movement inspired by it, can nowadays be consideredcommon events. Indeed, by now the organization of such academic conferencescan rightfully be regarded as yet another regular field of activity of themovement, besides its major and relentless endeavors in interreligious dialogue,secular education, welfare, and the media. Whereas the major eventsof …
Islamophobia – The Experience in Worlds Old and New
Organized jointly by the Australian Intercultural Society, the AustralianCatholic University, and Monash University together with the Gülen conferencea few days earlier, this conference was devoted to a particularly important and pressing topic: the anti-Islam discourse slowly becoming a standardfeature of western political competition and media coverage. As the topic issimilarly a rather polarizing one, an event of high scholarly quality could n…
The Spread and Persistence of Māturīdi Kalām and Underlying Dynamics
The paper is concerned with a long-term perspective on the position of Māturīdi kalām within (mostly) Hanafi Muslim societies from Timurid times to the 19th century. Whereas outright conflict between legal and theological schools was mainly a thing of the past during the time in question with Ash'arism, already fully embraced also by Hanafi constituencies within the ahl al-sunna wa l-jamā'a, a preference for Māturīdi views on specific issues pers…
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia are descendents of Champa, a once-powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdom located in modern-day central and southern Vietnam. Champa existed from the second century CE until its complete annexation by its long-time rival, the Dai Viet, in 1832.1 Its gradual loss of territory caused several waves of immigration to Cambodia between the crucial dates of 1471 and 1835 (the start of violent repression against the Cham in their las…
Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World
In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia's Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia's Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 199…
The Birth of the Kan Imam San
The Cambodian state is unique in Southeast Asia, due to its official recognition of two distinct Islamic religious communities, whose separate existence is entirely unrelated to the Sunni-Shia divide characterizing Muslim sectarian relations in many countries of the Middle East. Whereas the great majority of Cambodian Muslims, which primarily consist of ethnic Chams, is represented by the Mufti of Cambodia, a second officially recognized Islamic …
Introduction
Over the last decade or so, "Salafism" seems to have tacitly replaced the spectres of "Islamism" and "Islamic fundamentalism" in the lexicon of public media, of politicians on every level, of law enforcement agencies, and, subsequently, of the general public, especially in what these days is labelled the "Global North". While select publications had already appeared in the first years of the 2000s, it was a volume edited by Roel Meijer which, in …
The Spread and Persistence of Māturīdi Kalām and Underlying Dynamics
The paper is concerned with a long-term perspective on the position of Māturīdi kalām within (mostly) Hanafi Muslim societies from Timurid times to the 19th century. Whereas outright conflict between legal and theological schools was mainly a thing of the past during the time in question with Ash'arism, already fully embraced also by Hanafi constituencies within the ahl al-sunna wa l-jamā'a, a preference for Māturīdi views on specific issues pers…
Cambodian Muslims, Transnational NGOs, and International Justice
The genocide perpetrated by the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime, more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, against Cambodian Muslims between 1975 and 1979 is currently among the main charges faced b
Divergent processes of localization in twenty-first-century Shiʿism
This contribution discusses two striking twenty-first-century cases of the global spread of Shiʿism beyond the Middle East, with a particular focus on accompanying processes of localization. On the arid Guajira Peninsula shared by Colombia and Venezuela, Teodoro Darnott, a self-declared liberator of an indigenous people, has framed Shiʿism as a revolutionary ideology that helps justify the Wayúu people’s struggle for self-determination. In Cambod…
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia are descendents of Champa, a once-powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdom located in modern-day central and southern Vietnam. Champa existed from the second century CE until its complete annexation by its long-time rival, the Dai Viet, in 1832.1 Its gradual loss of territory caused several waves of immigration to Cambodia between the crucial dates of 1471 and 1835 (the start of violent repression against the Cham in their las…
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia
The Cham Muslims of Cambodia are descendents of Champa, a once-powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdom located in modern-day central and southern Vietnam. Champa existed from the second century CE until its complete annexation by its long-time rival, the Dai Viet, in 1832.1 Its gradual loss of territory caused several waves of immigration to Cambodia between the crucial dates of 1471 and 1835 (the start of violent repression against the Cham in their las…
From Dialogue to Collaboration
Conferences focusing on the thought of Fethullah Gülen, especially the activitiesof the faith-based movement inspired by it, can nowadays be consideredcommon events. Indeed, by now the organization of such academic conferencescan rightfully be regarded as yet another regular field of activity of themovement, besides its major and relentless endeavors in interreligious dialogue,secular education, welfare, and the media. Whereas the major eventsof …
Islamophobia – The Experience in Worlds Old and New
Organized jointly by the Australian Intercultural Society, the AustralianCatholic University, and Monash University together with the Gülen conferencea few days earlier, this conference was devoted to a particularly important and pressing topic: the anti-Islam discourse slowly becoming a standardfeature of western political competition and media coverage. As the topic issimilarly a rather polarizing one, an event of high scholarly quality could n…
The Spread and Persistence of Māturīdi Kalām and Underlying Dynamics
The paper is concerned with a long-term perspective on the position of Māturīdi kalām within (mostly) Hanafi Muslim societies from Timurid times to the 19th century. Whereas outright conflict between legal and theological schools was mainly a thing of the past during the time in question with Ash'arism, already fully embraced also by Hanafi constituencies within the ahl al-sunna wa l-jamā'a, a preference for Māturīdi views on specific issues pers…
The Particular Will (al-irādat al-juz'iyya)
The emergence of the notion of the particular will (al-irādat al-juz’iyya) and similar terms remains a largely overlooked late development in the discussion of human agency within the field of kalām. Although absent as a terminus technicus from classical Māturīdi-Ḥanafi works, it became standard usage in many Ottoman and post-Ottoman texts, beginning in the 17th century. Intriguingly, it seems as if the notion and concept of the particular will g…
Cambodian Muslims, Transnational NGOs, and International Justice
The genocide perpetrated by the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime, more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge, against Cambodian Muslims between 1975 and 1979 is currently among the main charges faced b
From Anatolia to Aceh
The Shi'a in Modern South Asia
Divergent processes of localization in twenty-first-century Shiʿism
This contribution discusses two striking twenty-first-century cases of the global spread of Shiʿism beyond the Middle East, with a particular focus on accompanying processes of localization. On the arid Guajira Peninsula shared by Colombia and Venezuela, Teodoro Darnott, a self-declared liberator of an indigenous people, has framed Shiʿism as a revolutionary ideology that helps justify the Wayúu people’s struggle for self-determination. In Cambod…
The Birth of the Kan Imam San
The Cambodian state is unique in Southeast Asia, due to its official recognition of two distinct Islamic religious communities, whose separate existence is entirely unrelated to the Sunni-Shia divide characterizing Muslim sectarian relations in many countries of the Middle East. Whereas the great majority of Cambodian Muslims, which primarily consist of ethnic Chams, is represented by the Mufti of Cambodia, a second officially recognized Islamic …
Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World
In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia's Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia's Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 199…
Salafī Challenge and Māturīdī Response
Salafī refutations of Sunnī kalām have long been focused almost exclusively on the Ashʿariyya. In recent decades, however, Salafī authors and activists have also turned their attention towards the Māturīdī current, which has been historically predominant in those parts of the Muslim world dominated by the Ḥanafī madhhab . In the present article, the characteristics of the Salafī challenge to the Māturīdiyya are presented and the main factors behi…
Introduction
Over the last decade or so, "Salafism" seems to have tacitly replaced the spectres of "Islamism" and "Islamic fundamentalism" in the lexicon of public media, of politicians on every level, of law enforcement agencies, and, subsequently, of the general public, especially in what these days is labelled the "Global North". While select publications had already appeared in the first years of the 2000s, it was a volume edited by Roel Meijer which, in …
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Representing Islam. Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation. Bloomington
The study of the relationship between Islam/Muslims and hip-hop culture has gained increasing attention in recent years. This development has been related mostly to two factors: firstly, a growing awareness of the relevance of (primarily, but not exclusively, Black) Muslims and Islamic references in American hip-hop and rap music; and, secondly, the rise of hip-hop in the Arab and Muslim worlds, which was epitomized by the prominent role of rappe…
At the Intersection of uṣūl al-fiqh and kalām
Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa al-Thānī al-Maḥbūbī (d. 747/1346) was the last major Māturīdī theologian of Transoxania. As he left no work of rational theology (kalām) proper, one of the chief sources of his theological thought is his book on legal theory, al-Tawḍīḥ fī ḥall ghawāmiḍ al-Tanqīḥ. Because the work served as a prominent reference for both legal theory and rational theology, an extensive commentary tradition on it emerged as it was transmitted from …
Facing Mecca from Java
Between the 1870s and 1902, the Jakarta-based Sayyid ʽUthmān b. ʽAbd Allāh al-ʽAlawī wrote two epistles on the correct establishment of the qibla . Questions on the qibla and, controversially, on correcting the faulty direction of prayer in several mosques in Southeast Asia, surfaced in the late 18th century and reappeared periodically until well into the 20th century. Seeking to change the established qibla of a mosque represented not only a str…
Qur’an Translations in African American (Post-)Muslim Movements
Due to their situatedness in a particular Western English-speaking environment, African American Muslims primarily received, engaged with, and employed the Qur'an through the vehicle of English translations. Contrary to what is often assumed, the Qur'an has played a key role in the formulation of the doctrines of the various African American Muslim movements, including among early representatives, such as the Nation of Islam. What is more, differ…
The Long Shadow of Malay kitab jawi Publishing in the Hejaz and Cairo
Between the 1880s and 1960s an industry for the production of Islamic books in the Malay language and its adaptation of the Arabic script, the so-called kitab jawi , developed in the Hejaz and Cairo. It was the result of collaboration by Malay authors and editors, Arab and Ottoman state presses and private publishers, and local booksellers, many of whom were of Indian descent. This study identifies the key actors in kitab jawi publishing in the H…
Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
The Māturīdī Tradition of Tafsīr
Despite increasing scholarly interest in the Māturīdī school of dialectic theology and Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī’s Qur’an commentary among scholars of the history of kalam (rational theology) and tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis), respectively, comparatively little attention has been devoted so far to the role of Qur’anic exegesis among later representatives of the school and to its relevance for the elaboration and transmission of Māturīdī thought in gene…
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