This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim
merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay
far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's
oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected
to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred
years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to
merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the
spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of
locally occurring Malay "adat," and globally normative "amal
'ibadat. "Concerning the rationale for merit-making, merit-makers
are motivated by both a desire to ensure their own comfort in the
grave and personal vindication at judgment, as well as to transfer
merit for those already in the grave, who are known to the
merit-maker. While the rhetoric elements of Muslim merit-making
reveal Thai influence, its ritual elements confirm the local impact
of reformist activism."
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