Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia

Chiara Formichi is Associate Professor in Asian Studies at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of Islam and politics in late-colonial and post-colonial Southeast Asia, and especially Indonesia. She has also published on the politics of knowledge production on Islam in Asia. Her publications include Islam and the Making of the Nation: S.M. Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia (2012) and Islam and Asia: A History (2020).

• Part I: Frames 1. Studying Islam: the view from Asia 2. Minoritization, racialization, and Islam in Asia 3. The five pillars and Indonesia’s musical soundscape 4. Islam and Sanskritic imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia 5. Islamic feminisms in Asia: Trials and tribulations for Muslim women Part II: Authority and authorizing practices 6. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic intellectual interactions 7. The making of Qīz Bībī in Central Asia’s oral shrine traditions: From the Great Lady to a fourteen-year-old virgin 8. The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and narrative in highland Asia 9. Islamic law in Xinjiang 10. Major turning points for Shiʿi Islam in modern South Asia: Princely states, partition, and a revolution 11. Making Islamic finance in South Asia: The state, the seminary, and the business corporation 12. In the halal zones of Malaysia and Singapore Part III: Muslim spatialities 13. South Asian Shi’i sacred geography: Tracing 'Ali’s footprints 14. Muslim pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints among the rice fields 15. Ḥaḍramī Sufi-scholars and their shrines in Southeast Asia: A geography of sanctity 16. Sacred spaces and the making of Sufism in Sri Lanka: Between violence and piety 17. Muslim interactions between Central Asia, China, and imperial Japan 18. Mosque architecture and decoration in China Part IV: Imaginations of piety 19. Mapping the trajectory of Islam in Chinese terms: Community matters 20. The "moral background" of work in Central Asia: The sacred in the mundane 21. Pious lives of Soviet Muslims 22. Two Deobandi views on being Muslim in India: Indian bodies, Meccan hearts 23. The Tablighi Jama’at movement in maritime Southeast Asia: Piety in motion 24. A tree enrooted: African Sufi saints as "lineage deities" of a Muslim community of East African ancestry in Western India (Gujarat and Mumbai)

'Dispelling the notion of Asia as a periphery to a Middle East-centered Muslim world, this groundbreaking volume looks to the many Asian communities that comprise 60% of the global Muslim population. From hagiography to finance, pilgrimage to law, these twenty-four essays explore multiple modes of being Muslim, in past and present, across all regions of the continent.' Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles, USA "This volume marks a turning point in the study of Islam, shifting the geographical scope towards the religion’s most populous regions and away from long-standing textualist tendencies. As Formichi rightly points out, there is much to be gained by expanding our frames of study, conceptions of authoritative practice and Islamic spaces, and understandings of what constitutes Muslim piety. Drawing from an outstanding network of scholars working in different regions and with varying methods, the Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia decenters the study of Islam from its philological and Near Eastern roots and productively queries the categorical assumptions with which the field is typically associated...This volume definitively establishes that it is essential to include Islam in the analysis of Asian religions and that to study Islam, one must include Asia.'Anna Bigelow, Stanford University, USA'Through a rich collection of work reflecting recent shifts in perspective on Muslim societies in the region, this book reframes approaches to the study of both Islam and Asian history in ways that highlight trans-regional diversity and complex dynamics of interaction. This forward looking state-of-the-field volume is a valuable new resource for scholars and students across a wide range of area specializations and academic disciplines.'R. Michael Feener, Kyoto University, Japan