Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World: Malay Language, Jawi Script, and Islamic Factionalism from the 19th Century to the Present

Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 420pp. Indices and 28 page bibliography. Green buckram with black top band, spine lettered in white and black. Illustrated with a map and 10 text photos (half in color). A fine, as new copy.

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. (Publisher)

Contents: Introduction: Religious Change and Intra-Muslim Factionalism -- 1 Foregrounding the Jawization of Islam in Cambodia -- 2 On the Eve of Jawization and Colonial Rule -- 3 Chams and Malays in Late Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Cambodia -- 4 Observing Structural and Processual Dispositions for Jawization -- 5 Jawization in Cambodia's Diverse Muslim Landscape of the 1930s -- 6 Agents, Nodes and Vehicles of Jawization -- 7 The French Role in Jawization and Factionalism in Cambodian Islam -- 8 The Legacies of Jawization and Anti-Jawization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Groups. (OCLC)

Volume 7 of the series, "Brill's Southeast Asian Library" Fine. Item #52096
ISBN: 9789004346055

Price: $95.00

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