Keramat: Muḥammad’s Heirs and Nodes of a Multi-Centered Islam in Southeast Asia

Despite demographic realities, Muslim Southeast Asia remains one of the most marginalized regions in Islamic studies and in popular culture. This article grapples with one of the thorniest of allegations against the Islam of the “peripheries,” that the prevalence of saints and miracle workers, known...

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Main Author: Sevea, Teren 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: International Journal of Islam in Asia
Year: 2023, Volume: 4, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 48-74
Further subjects:B Islamic connections
B Keramat
B Southeast Asian nodes of a Multi-centered Islam
B miracle stories
B heirs of the Prophet
B the Islamic east
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