Emerging from a 2005 conference at the University of Passau (Germany),
Susanne Schroter’s edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary group
of scholars, from anthropologists and historians to literary scholars and Muslim
female activists, to examine this complex subject. The book is organized
into four country-specific sections on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
and Thailand, respectively. The fifth and final section, consisting of only one
chapter, adds a transnational dimension by analyzing the Tablighi Jama‘at.
Despite the volume’s breadth of disciplinary and geographic contributions,
its authors share a common project: the recuperation of Muslim women’s history,
and especially female Muslim agency, amidst the rise of Islamization in
Southeast Asia.
Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences