Muslims in South East Asia

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Islam in South-East Asia by M.B. Hooker (Editor) ISBN ISBN Why is ISBN important. ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book.

The digit and digit formats both work. Format: Paperback. Sharon Siddique, "Southeast Asian Journal of Sociel Science, '.".trhs concis et trhs clair, une bonne intruduction aux divers aspects de l'Islam en Asie du Muslims in South East Asia book et aux spicificitis de l'Islam asiatique.' "L'Afrique et l'Asie modernes, '"The contributions to this book are all valuable in their own ways.' Harold Crouch, ": Paperback.

Islam is a major religion in Southeast Asia, with Indonesian Muslims comprising the largest Muslim population in the world. Introduction: the translation of Islam into South-East Asia / M.B. Hooker --Islam and the Muslim state / A.C.

Milner --Social theory, ethnography and the understanding of practical Islam in South-East Asia / Roy F. Ellen --Islamic philosophy in South-East Asia / John Bousfield --Islam and literature in South-East Asia: some pre-modern, mainly. The series publishes academic and policy research on historical and contemporary Muslim communities, both in the region and in the diaspora, and on all aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia.

It concentrates on theoretical, methodological, empirical, religious, spiritual, and critical studies of Islam, including mundane praxes and lived Islam. Islam in Southeast Asia. Often called the “Muslim archipelago,” Southeast Asia is home to more than million Muslims -- about 42 percent of Southeast Asians, and about 25 percent of the world’s billion Muslims.

Most Southeast Asian Muslims are Sunni, and follow the Shafii school of Muslim jurisprudence. Islam is the official religion of Malaysia and Brunei, and an officially Author: Ali Houissa. For the past two decades, The Australian National University has had a program for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia.

Over the years, this program has produced an impressive array of graduates, many of them from the region, whose theses document the variety and vitality of Islam in Southeast Asia.

Since much of this original research has not been readily available to the. ISLAM: ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA One in three Muslims today is of South Asian origin. With a Muslim population of over million, South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) is home to the largest concentration of Muslims in the world.

The significance of the region's vast and diverse Muslim communities extends far beyond the present-day political boundaries of South Asia. Over the past decades, researchers have concluded Admiral Zheng He and his armada were the key force behind Islam’s spread in Southeast Asia. “Nearly one-third, or a half billion, of the world's Muslim population lives in South Asia, which includes the nation-states of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Malik's impressive book is an account of the long and complicated history of Islam in that region. This book looks at Islam and its strategic implications for Southeast Asia.

Part I outlines Islamic doctrine and traces the history and growth of Islamic economic institutions in the region. In Part II, politics, governance, civil society and gender issues are examined in the context of Southeast Asian by: Book Description.

There are more Muslims – over million – in South Asia than in any other region in the world. Many of the most important political, intellectual and spiritual developments within Islam have had their origins, or have flourished, in the area, and Muslims from the region have played important roles in the global history of Islam.

Southeast Asia is the home of more than million Muslims and includes the world’s most populated Muslim state and its largest democracy, Indonesia. It includes three majority Muslim states (Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia), four with significant minorities (Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, and a small and declining.

The Philippines has been a recent flashpoint, but violent episodes have taken place elsewhere, too. Islamist groups in the region are diverse and the threat of.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Islam in South and South-east Asia. Delhi: Ajanta Publications: Distributors, Ajanta Books International, Three countries in South Asia are among the largest Muslim nations: Bangladesh has about 98 million Muslims, India about 95 million, and Pakistan about million.

The entire subcontinental total can be estimated in as Including about million Muslims. The first Muslims to reach this area from Arabia came in A.

Most Muslims in Southeast Asia are Sunni, although scholars note that Islam here is remarkably syncretic, having absorbed a number of local beliefs, customs and traditions that pre-date the arrival of Islam.

Islam is the second largest religion in South Asia with about million Muslims, forming about one third of South Asia's population. South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia.

Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan).Afghanistan: 34, (). is a platform for academics to share research papers. Therefore, one would say that Islam arrived in South-East Asia in a peaceful way through trade and interactions between Muslim merchants and the locals.

Similarly to Buddhism, Islam blended with existing cultural and religious influences of the Southeast Asian regions. See also: Gyeongju and the Silk Roads. Nara at the end of the Silk Roads. The actual timing and introduction of the Islamic religion and its practice to Southeast Asia is subject to debate.

European historians have argued that it came through trading contacts with India whereas some Southeast Asian Muslim scholars claim it was brought to the region directly from Arabia in the Middle scholars claim that Muslim Chinese who were engaged in trade introduced it.But efforts to purify South-East Asian Islam also have a long pedigree.

The Muhammadiyah organisation was founded, inin order to spread a more conventional interpretation of the faith.in Southeast Asia. Often called the “Muslim archipelago,” Southeast Asia is one of the most populous parts of the Islamic world. There are more than million Muslims in this sub-region of Asia, counting for about 42 per cent of the total Southeast Asian population, or about 25 per cent of the total world Muslim population estimated at 1.