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Courting for the Souls.: Islamic Traveller Preacher Between Mewat (North India) and Tha Sala (South Thailand)
Ist Teil von
Sociologus, 2008-01, Vol.58 (1), p.49-71
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Duncker & Humblot eJournals
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In the 1970s and 1980s, the revitalization of spiritual Islam in the form of revival movements that are known as Dawa has considerably contributed to the ongoing Islamization of Southeast Asian societies. The Tablighi Jamaat al-Dawa (TJ), originally hailing from Mewat district near Delhi in India, is the single most important translocal Dawa-movement in Southern Thailand today. The TJ evokes the Utopian image of the Muslim society in Medina and provides a spiritual and spatial alternative to the difficult situation of Muslim minorities in plural-westernized modern nation-states. In lieu of the syncretic rituals, the TJ introduces the devaluation of the self in a rigorous lifestyle regime, participation in the outings of the travel and missionary groups. This claim of purification has sustainable influence on the cosmology and exchange systems in traditional society of Southern Thailand, divides society, and minimizes the interaction with the Buddhist majority. As of now, the Islamic mission has already led to an expansion of reformist Islam in local society. The result of social competition over social and religious spaces is open, but the pressure on local cosmology is believed to grow in the near future. Adapted from the source document.