Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
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Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
Author: Masooda Bano
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2015-03-20
Explores the influence of centres of Islamic learning using 3 case studies: Al-Azhar University in Egypt, International Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and Al-Mustafa University in Iran
Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
Claims abound that Saudi oil money is fuelling Salafi Islam in cultural and geographical terrains as disparate as the remote hamlets of the Swat valley to sprawling megacities such as Jakarta. Similarly, it is often regarded as fact that Iran and Sunni Arab states are fighting proxy wars in foreign lands. This empirically grounded study challenges the assumptions prevalent within academic and policy circles about the hegemonic power of such Islamic discourses and movements to penetrate all Muslim societies. Through case studies of three universities with global outreach it illustrates how the transmission of ideas is a complex process, and how the outcome depends not just on the strategies adopted by the backers of ideologies but equally on the characteristics of recipient communities.
Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World
In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia’s Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia’s Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 1990s ties to the Malay world have been revived and new Islamic currents, including Salafism and Tablighism, have left their mark on contemporary Cambodian Islam. Bruckmayr traces how these dynamics resulted inter alia in a history of local Islamic factionalism, culminating in the eventual state recognition of two separate Islamic congregations in the late 1990s.