The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local
responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All
contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well
as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of
anthropologists and historians convey is a feeling of
dissatisfaction with the very term. Their uneasiness relates to the
conceptual problems arising from seeing Islam as either local or
global. Rather, the authors argue in favour of a focus not on Islam
but on the lives of Muslims, putting their lives into the context
of complex historical developments. Ranging across much of the vast
extent of the Islamic world - from West Africa and the Near East to
China and Southeast Asia - the contributions deal with the effects
of migration on local Islamic traditions in Bangladesh; conflicts
between Muslim sects in Pakistan; the development of jihad in West
Africa; the problem of maintaining a Muslim identity in China; how
Javanese Muslims combine their Islamic faith with belief in a local
Javanese spirit world; the comparison between urban- and
rural-based Islam in Syria; and (in two studies from western Sudan)
issues of belief and broader aspects of identity management in a
multi-ethnic situation.
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