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Miracles and Material Life - Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Hardcover)
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Miracles and Material Life - Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Hardcover)
Series: Asian Connections
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In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the
economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic
miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked
manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers
are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both
in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between
miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in
which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well
as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of
charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs
in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime
connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British
Empire.
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