What Is Religious Authority

Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID20006922
AuthorsI F Alatas (0000-0002-9344-668X, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-06-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueWhat Is Religious Authority? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691204314.001.0001
OpenAlexW3184939251
Open LibraryOL34693409M
ISBN9780691204314
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Taking readers from the eighteenth century to today, this book traces the movements of Muslim saints and scholars from Yemen to Indonesia and looks at how they traversed complex cultural settings while opening new channels for the transmission of Islamic teachings. The book describes the rise to prominence of Indonesia's leading Sufi master, Habib Luthfi, and his rivalries with competing religious leaders, revealing why some Muslim voices become authoritative while others don't. It examines how Habib Luthfi has used the infrastructures of the Sufi order and the Indonesian state to build a durable religious community, while deploying genealogy and hagiography to present himself as a successor of the Prophet Muḥammad. Challenging prevailing conceptions of what it means to be Muslim, the book demonstrates how the concrete and sustained labors of translation, mobilization, collaboration, and competition are the very dynamics that give Islam its power and diversity

Competition (biology) · Indonesian · Islam · Media studies · Order (exchange) · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Successor cardinal · Asian Studies and History · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religions

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