This article links fragmentary information in Dutch sources about an eighteenth century Arab teacher, the opaquely named Sayyid ‘ Alawi, who was said to have played a leading role in the humiliation of the VOC garrison at Kartasura during the Chinese War of 1741-43. After being banished to Cape Town in 1744 he languished on Robben Island before being transferred to the town in 1761 as an enforcer of public order. Today, however, he is remembered mainly as the first imam to the rising Muslim community even as little is known about the reasons for his exile. Beyond seeking to outline his history, the author offers some suggestions about the role of specific Sufi practices in perpetuating his memory, and proposes how he could have been an earl...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
The study of the history of the Indian Ocean can no longer be considered merely as hagiographic reco...
This article will explore the intellectual journey of Snouck Hurgonje as a hired scholar for the col...
This article links fragmentary information in Dutch sources about an eighteenth century Arab teacher...
al-Jawi. Partant de son patronyme et de références éparses dans le Mir'at al-jinan de al-Yafi' i, le...
This paper focuses on the Origins and Malaya presence of Islam in both ritual practices and daily li...
<p><em>The article examines the history of </em>Jama‘ah Tabligh <em>in South...
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in The Historic...
The Oulemas/Soufis in Mogul India : An Historical Anthropology of Religious Muslims. This article ...
This article focuses on the controversial issue of apostasy pertaining to the alleged family of Shay...
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This article examines an esoteric text entitled Duʿāʾ al-Sabāsib al-Sabʿa (Prayer of the Seven Deser...
Dossier spécial des Annales Islamologiques : "Les conventions diplomatiques dans le monde musulman. ...
ABSTRACT This article examines pre-modern reform movement Wahhabism emerged in the Najd region of cu...
This article focuses on the controversial issue of apostasy pertaining to the alleged family of Shay...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
The study of the history of the Indian Ocean can no longer be considered merely as hagiographic reco...
This article will explore the intellectual journey of Snouck Hurgonje as a hired scholar for the col...
This article links fragmentary information in Dutch sources about an eighteenth century Arab teacher...
al-Jawi. Partant de son patronyme et de références éparses dans le Mir'at al-jinan de al-Yafi' i, le...
This paper focuses on the Origins and Malaya presence of Islam in both ritual practices and daily li...
<p><em>The article examines the history of </em>Jama‘ah Tabligh <em>in South...
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in The Historic...
The Oulemas/Soufis in Mogul India : An Historical Anthropology of Religious Muslims. This article ...
This article focuses on the controversial issue of apostasy pertaining to the alleged family of Shay...
The Article discusses the early history of the development of islam in the islamic sultanate of samu...
This article examines an esoteric text entitled Duʿāʾ al-Sabāsib al-Sabʿa (Prayer of the Seven Deser...
Dossier spécial des Annales Islamologiques : "Les conventions diplomatiques dans le monde musulman. ...
ABSTRACT This article examines pre-modern reform movement Wahhabism emerged in the Najd region of cu...
This article focuses on the controversial issue of apostasy pertaining to the alleged family of Shay...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
The study of the history of the Indian Ocean can no longer be considered merely as hagiographic reco...
This article will explore the intellectual journey of Snouck Hurgonje as a hired scholar for the col...