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An examination of Africa's experience of modernity which draws out its wider implications for social theory

"Islam in the Malay world of Southeast Asia or Islam Nusantara, as it has come to be known, had for a long time been seen as representing the more spiritual and

In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition

The author examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form bu