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Muslim merit-making in Thailand's far-South

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This volume provides an ethnographic description of Muslim merit-making rhetoric, rituals and rationales in Thailand's Malay far-south. This study is situated in Cabetigo, one of Pattani's oldest and most important Malay communities that has been subjected to a range of Thai and Islamic influences over the last hundred years. The volume describes religious rhetoric related to merit-making being conducted in both Thai and Malay, that the spiritual currency of merit is generated through the performance of locally occurring Malay adat, and globally normative amal 'ibadat

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200 M974C

Publisher

Dordrecht : Springer., 2012

Collation

xi, 235 pages ; maps

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789400724853, 9400724853

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Subject(s)

Anthropology
Anthropological linguistics
Electronic books
Islam Customs and practices
Islam Thailand Customs and practices

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Christopher M. Joll

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