Chiara Formichi is Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian
Humanities at Cornell University. Her work centres on political
Islam and nationalism, secularism as a marker of modernity, and
issues of sectarianism, orthodoxy and pluralism. She is the author
of Islam and the Making of the Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political
Islam in 20th century Indonesia (2012), and edited Religious
Pluralism, State and Society in Asia (2013).
Michael Feener is Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization
cluster at the Asia Research Institute, and Associate Professor of
History at the National University of Singapore. His books include:
Shari'a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law
in Aceh, Indonesia (2013), and Muslim Legal Thought in Modern
Indonesia (2007).
"A study of Shi'ism in Southeast Asia has been a long time coming The organization is logical, by subject area, the essays are well structured and well written, and the overall text is well edited. The contributors represent a truly international scope, with scholars from Australia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States."--Howard M. Federspiel, Pacific Affairs"In sum, this volume represents major advances in the field and should be of vital interest to both scholars of Southeast Asian Islam as well as of Shi'ism in general."--American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences"This path-breaking work makes an important contribution to understanding the complexities of religion in a part of the Muslim world that is still only peripherally studied. Highlighting the intensive and extensive contacts between the Lands below the Winds and the so-called Islamic heartlands in the Middle East, this volume will advance both these fields of academic inquiry. The editors have ensured a comprehensive coverage and a welcome counternarrative to writings in Southeast Asian languages on Shi'ism which have become ideologically polarised. Against the background of growing sectarian tensions in the wider Muslim world, this book is also timely and will help map the intricacies of the relationship between Southeast Asia's Sunni and Shi'i Muslims in the past and the present." -- - Carool Kersten, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King's College London and author of Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
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