Ismail Fajrie Alatas is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. Twitter and Instagram @ifalatas
"Through this highly original study of such articulatory labours in
Java, Alatas has written one of the most important books on Islam
in Indonesia in years, and crafted a work that deserves to become a
central reference for all scholars of Islam and Islamic
authority."---Robert W. Hefner, Journal of Islamic Studies
"Successfully argues that what is known as “Islam the universal
religion” does not reside in the consistency of its teachings.
However, one aspect of Islam that is universal is the work of
congregational building."---Hasan Mustapa, International Journal of
Asian Studies
"Provides rich insights for readers who wish to gain a better
understanding of comparative Islamic authority. The author’s
success in blending historical, anthropological and political
analyses together makes this book a worthwhile read and a useful
source of reference for scholars interested in Islam in
Indonesia."
*Contemporary Southeast Asia*
"A groundbreaking contribution. . . . The book will certainly find
its ways to become an important reference in the historical and
anthropological study of Islam and religious authority in Indonesia
from the premodern to the present times."---Wahyuddin Halim,
Religion and Social Communication
"A theoretical contribution that presents not only a refined
understanding of Islamic authority but also the universality of
Islam as a ‘concrete universality.’"---Zacky Khairul Umam,
International Quarterly for Asian Studies
"This book offers a thorough examination of the concept of
articulation, enabling scholars and researchers to create a
nonhistoricist interpretation of Islam and Islamic history. It
helps them to view Islamic history and society as a set of
exchanges, disputes and ongoing transactions among Islamic groups
that have been put together via various articulatory
practices."---Asif Mohiuddin, Public Anthropologist
"Alatas’ general insight might be extended to any societal and
cultural configuration. This makes his monograph relevant well
beyond the boundaries of the study of Javanese or Indonesian Islam,
and, in fact, beyond the study of Islam or religion in general. . .
. [A] layered, important book."---Matteo Bortolini, Reading
Religion
"[What Is Religious Authority?] challenges prevailing views on
Muslim identity by focusing on Indian Ocean networks that frame
European influence as just one chapter in a longer historical
narrative. It explores the dialogic relationship between
transnational and local mobilities across Islamic history,
examining how these dynamics shape Islam’s social realisation
through articulatory labor."---Luigi Sausa, European Journal of
East Asian Studies
"Provacative. . . . [What Is Religious Authority?] is the product
of indefatigable intellectual
curiosity, and one cannot help but admire the ethnohistorian at
play in both archive and field site, tacking between Islamic pasts
and emergent futures. Equally important, this book joins other
recent works that give us a sense of what is possible with a host
of research languages, a creative approach to the longue durée, the
incisive eye of an ethnographer, and a critical understanding of
what, exactly, constitutes Islam."---James Hoesterey, The Journal
of Asian Studies
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