Miracles and Material Life : Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya

Name: Miracles and Material Life
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108702126
Price: 6100 KES
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ISBN: 9781108702126

by Teren Sevea

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Asian Connections

ISBN-10 1108702120

ISBN-13 9781108702126

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 20th, 2022

Print length 294 Pages

Weight 436 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.90 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Asian history Islam Economic history Asian history Islam Mysticism, magic & ritual Mysticism, magic and alternative spiritual practices

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Through a close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked Malay Islamic manuscripts, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) across the Indian Ocean world and on the frontier of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire.

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