Reformist Debates on Funerary Ritual among Tanzanian and Acehnese Muslims in the Twentieth Century
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see Leor Halevi, Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). See also Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981). On twentiethcentury reformist movements and political debates there is a vast literature; see, e.g., Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993); for Indonesia see n18. Kai Kresse’s Philosophising in Mombasa (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007) is the authority on midcentury conversations about reform among notables on the East African coast.
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