Asian Studies and History

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Abstract Islamists' ideas about the position of women are readily invoked to portray them as ‘anti-modern’. The operating assumption is that Islamism (mutatis mutandis Islam) sanctions gender hierarchy. In this paper, drawing on ethnographic research and written sources of the Jamaat-e-Islami of India, founded in 1941…

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• MUHİTTİN ATAMAN

The dominant debate on Islam and democracy continues to operate in the realm of normativity. This article engages with key literature showing limits of such a line of inquiry. Through the case study of India’s Islamist organization, Jamaat-e-Islami, I aim at shifting the debate from textual normativity to demotic prax…

Purpose This paper aims to propose a new Islamic trade finance framework for Islamic financial institution (FIs) to support exports in Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) countries. Design Methodology Approach: This paper introduces and proposes the recently developed Islamic finance methods of the supplier fin…

• AHMET ŞUAYB GÜNDOĞDU

Dieser Aufsatz thematisiert ein zentrales Paradox, mit dem sich nichtwestliche Eliten seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert auseinandersetzen mußten: Wie ließen sich die intellektuellen Grundlagen der eurozentrischen, imperialistischen Ordnung in Asien kritisieren, wenn doch zugleich Legitimität und Identität dieser Eliten…

Abstract Religious movements have often been studied in the context of nationstates. With scholarly attention now shifting to globalization and other world system processes, there is a growing move to go beyond the particularity of nation-states and study the general transnational dimensions of religious movements. In…

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This paper examines Indonesia's democratic state capacity-building in terms of transformations in West Timor, particularly around manganese mining. It is structured on the basis of three complementary sets of arguments. Firstly, democratic capacity-building is essentially a power-driven process as it seeks to re-arran…

• SELVER BULDANLIOĞLU ŞAHİN

Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives, is a product of meticulous study of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, A.C.S. Peacock and other contributors on historical documents from the Ottoman archives. The work contains documents in Ottoman-Turkish, Malay, Arabic, French, English, Tausug, Burmese and Thai…

Abstract Studying contemporary mosque architecture necessitates dealing concurrently with both the past and the present. Burdens of the past cause a crisis at a point when architects attempt to design prayer spaces that avoid historicist references while attending to the religion’s liturgical requirements. This crisis…

• BERİN FATMA GÜR

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• RAMAZAN YILDIRIM