Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Quran in Indonesia - Hardcover

Gade, Anna M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824825993 ISBN 13: 9780824825997

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2004

Synopsis

The last decade has seen widespread Islamic religious revitalization in Southeast Asia, a region with a Muslim population almost as large as that of the entire Arabic-speaking Middle East. One such movement in 1990s Indonesia promoted engagement with the Qurân through memorization, reading, skilled performance, and popular competitions in recitation. This movement drew on longstanding structures of Islamic education and piety, social interests, Southeast Asian patterns of performance and aesthetics, and unique features of the Qurân itself. Based on fieldwork in South Sulawesi and elsewhere in Indonesia, Perfection Makes Practice vividly portrays Indonesian Muslims' committed practice of perfecting their own (and others') Qurânic piety.

About this title

About the Author

Anna M. Gade is an assistant professor of religion at Oberlin College.

Review

"Offers a remarkable view into the Qur'an as it is learned and as it is lived within the world's largest Muslim society.... Essential reading for Qur'anic studies, Islamic studies, and comparative approaches to sacred texts."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0824825993
• ISBN 13: 9780824825997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 360