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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives
Author Feener, Michael R. (編) ; Blackburn, Anne M. (編)
Date2019
Pages220
PublisherUniversity of Hawai‘i Press
Publisher Url https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
LocationHonolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteR. Michael Feener is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.

Anne M. Blackburn is professor of South Asia studies and Buddhist studies at Cornell University and director of the Cornell University South Asia Program.
AbstractOver the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interaction between scholars in both fields that will increase our understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, ritual practices, and literary specialists.

The book’s approach is to scrutinize one major dimension of the history of religion in Southern Asia: religious orders. “Orders” (here referring to Sufi ṭarīqas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) established means by which far-flung local communities could come to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their particular religious traditions and their human representatives as attractive and authoritative to potential new communities of devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study. Some explain how certain orders took shape in Southern Asia over the course of the nineteenth century, contextualizing these institutional developments in relation to local and transregional political formations, shifting literary and ritual preferences, and trade connections. Others show how the circulation of people, ideas, texts, objects, and practices across Southern Asia, a region in which both Buddhism and Islam have a long and substantial presence, brought diverse currents of internal reform and notions of ritual and lineage purity to the region. All chapters draw readers’ attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations.

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia brings cutting-edge research to bear on conversations about how “orders” have functioned within these two traditions to expand and sustain transregional religious networks. It will help to develop a better understanding of the complex roles played by religious networks in the history of Southern Asia.
Table of contents1 Sufis and Saṅgha in Motion 1
2 A Ḥadramī Sufi Tradition in the Indonesian Archipelago 20
3 The Itineraries of Sīhaḷa Monk Sāralaṅkā 48
4 Challenging Orders 75
5 Whose Orders? 99
6 Sufi Orders in Southeast Asia 125
7 Shaṭṭāriyya Sufi Scents 153
8 Negotiating Order in the Land of the Dragon and the Hidden Valley of Rice 185
Contributors 209
Index 213
ISBN9780824872113 (hc); 9780824892494 (pbk); 0824872118 (hc)
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  1. Book Review: Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives Edited by R. Michael Feener and Anne M. Blackburn / Mukhopadhyay, Mriganka (評論)
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