Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud Bin 'Abd Allah Al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia

by Francis R. Bradley

Forging Islamic Power and Place charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh Dā'ūd bin 'Abd Allāh al-Faṭānī regrouped in Mecca. In the years that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824851617
• ISBN13: 9780824851613
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"