Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas: Conceptualizing the Global Ummah (Routledge South Asian Religion Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367673312 ISBN 13: 9780367673314

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya.

The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels, and to that end the essays in this book document a wide range of local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized experiences. It presents research that contributes to a broadly conceived notion of the Himalaya that enriches readers’ understandings of both the region and concepts of Muslim community and highlights the interconnections between multiple experiences of Muslim community at local levels.

Drawing attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better understood and frequently documented religio-cultural expressions of the region, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Anthropology, Geography, History, Religious Atudies, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies.

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About the Author

Jacqueline H. Fewkes is Professor of Anthropology at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. She is also the author of Trade and Contemporary Society Along the Silk Road (Routledge, 2008) and Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses (2019).

Megan Adamson Sijapati is Professor of Religious Studies at Gettysburg College, USA. She is also the author of Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya (Routledge, 2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367673312
• ISBN 13: 9780367673314
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Fewkes Jacqueline H., Adamson Sijapati Megan