Contested identities: Tuan Guru and Ahmadiyah in the redrawing of post-1998 Sasak-Muslim boundary lines in Lombok

10.26686/wgtn.17145572.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Sitti Sani Nurhayati

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

Regime Change ◽

Religious Violence ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Boundary Lines

<p>This study examines what drives the increasing hostility towards Ahmadiyah in post-Suharto Lombok. Fieldwork was undertaken in three villages – Pemongkong, Pancor and Ketapang – where Ahmadiyah communities lived and experienced violent attacks from 1998 to 2010. The stories from these villages are analysed within the context of a revival of local religious authority and the redefinition of the paradigm of ethno-religious identity. Furthermore, this thesis contends that the redrawing of identity in Lombok generates a new interdependency of different religious authorities, as well as novel political possibilities following the regime change. Finally, the thesis concludes there is a need to understand intercommunal religious violence by reference to specific local realities. Concomitantly, there is a need for greater caution in offering sweeping universal Indonesia-wide explanations that need to be qualified in terms of local contexts.</p>

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History and Memory

10.1093/oso/9780190655914.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Stéphane A. Dudoignon

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Socioeconomic Impact ◽

Religious Authority ◽

History And Memory ◽

Minority Identity ◽

Desert Oasis ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Impact

A geographical survey of Iranian Baluchistan highlights the modern transformation of the desert/oasis dichotomy, and the socioeconomic impact of this evolution upon political and religious authority within the Baluch world. Examining the discourses of different categories of primary sources on the Baluch, the chapter highlights the changing perception by diverse observers of Baluch religiosity and religious identity since the early twentieth century. It also shows, notably, how Iranian anticolonial discourse in the 1960s-70s exposed the impact of Shia migration to the country’s Sunni-peopled periphery upon the consolidation of an ethno-social Sunni minority identity. Dealing with Baluch historiography, the chapter discusses how Baluch chroniclers have promoted, since the 1960s, a typology of heroes and values in which the ulama and Islamic discourse tend to replace tribal leaders and pastoral ethics of previous centuries. The chapter underlines the role played in this discursive change and the contest of the tribal chieftains’ power, by representatives of the oases world and of minor tribal groups of landowning status.

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The Identity Construction of Da'wah Leadership on Jama'ah Tabligh Movement

Ilmu Dakwah Academic Journal for Homiletic Studies ◽

10.15575/idajhs.v14i1.9210 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 145-162

Author(s):

Dudy Imanuddin Effendy ◽

Dudi Rustandi

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Social Groups ◽

Charismatic Leadership ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

Research Paradigm ◽

Leadership Emergence ◽

Leadership Model

The presence of religious social groups is driven by the process of leadership emergence. The purpose of this study is to find (1) the concept of leadership of the Tablighi Jamaah from various perspectives; Sufism, jurisprudence, laity, and religious authority; (2) Construction of the identity of the religious leaders of the Jamaah Tabligh. The research paradigm uses virtual ethnographic methods with social identity construction theory. The results showed that (1) the concept of leadership in the Tablighi Jamaah emphasized more on religious authority and charismatic leadership (2) The construction of the religious identity of the leadership dimension of the Tablighi Jama'at was a combination of charismatic and transformational authority. This research can have an impact on the leadership model of social and religious institutions in Indonesia as a model that is quite effective in creating observance of pilgrims.Kehadiran kelompok sosial keagamaan didorong oleh proses munculnya kepemimpinan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan (1) konsep kepemimpinan Jamaah Tabligh dari beragam perspektif; sufistik, yurisprudensi, awam, dan otoritas keagamaan; (2) Konstruksi identitas kepemimpinan agama Jamaah Tabligh. Paradigma penelitian menggunakan metode etnografi virtual dengan teori konstruksi identitas social. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) konsep kepemimpinan pada Jamaah Tabligh lebih menekankan pada otoritas keagamaan dan kepemimpinan yang bersifat kharismatik (2) Konstruksi identitas keagamaan dimensi kepemimpinan Jama’ah Tabligh merupakan perpaduan antara otoritas kharisma dan transformasional. Penelitian ini dapat berdampak terhadap model kepemimpinan instusi social maupun keagamaan di Indonesia sebagai model yang cukup efektif dalam menciptakan ketaatan jamaah.

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POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN AND SHIءI LEBANON: CONTESTED HISTORIES OF SHIءI TRANSNATIONALISM

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743807070420 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 289a-289a

Author(s):

Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Political Party ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Transnational Network ◽

Iranian Government ◽

The Creation ◽

Ideological Work

In this article I address the transnational dimensions of memory production. In particular, I analyze how interpretations of past events define Shiءi relations across borders in the Middle East. Focusing on how the Lebanese Shiءi political party of Amal and the current Iranian government remember the figure of Mustafa Chamran—an Iranian Shiءi anti-Shah activist based in Lebanon from 1970 to 1979—I discuss the debates that inform the creation of such contested memories and reasons for and consequences of their divergence. Participants' ideas about the history and characteristics of this transnational network cannot be understood separately from their claims to political and religious authority in the Shiءi world. Thus, transnational Shiءi networks do not self-evidently reproduce themselves based on a shared sense of religious identity and history. It takes ideological work both to construct differences and to create solidarities across borders among Shiءa. This ideological work must be situated within larger political, religious, and socioeconomic contexts.

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Militancy, Monarchy and the Struggle to Desacralise Kingship in Arabia

Islam after Liberalism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190851279.003.0011 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 203-218

Author(s):

Ahmed Dailami

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Political Power ◽

Political Authority ◽

Religious Violence ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Theoretical Assumptions ◽

Economic Capacity

Thirty years of scholarship on Saudi Arabia has assumed a fused relationship between religious and political authority at the helm of a petro-state. This chapter questions the fundamental theoretical assumptions about that relationship both historically and in the contemporary era. By examining the tensions between religious violence, the state’s political authority, and the liberal solutions that have emerged to resolve them, the chapter both draws out the ideological lineage of Saudi reformism for the post-Islamist era, while suggesting new ways to conceptualize political power as distinct from religious authority or economic capacity. In the process, the chapter takes stock of Saudi Arabia’s puritan tradition as its monarchy leads the regional drive against Political Islamism.

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Religious terrorism - Wikipedia

10.31219/osf.io/38r2y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Minh-Hoang Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

Religious Violence ◽

Religious Terrorism

Religious terrorism is a type of religious violence where terrorism is used as a tactic to achieve religious goals or which are influenced by religious identity. ***** For archiving purpose only *****

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