Muslim Piety as Economy: Markets, Meaning and Morality in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780429321146
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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The first volume to explore Muslim piety as a form of economy, this book examines specific forms of production, trade, regulation, consumption, entrepreneurship and science that condition - and are themselves conditioned by - Islamic values, logics and politics. With a focus on Southeast Asia as a site of significant and diverse integration of Islam and the economy - as well as the incompatibilities that can occur between the two - it reveals the production of a Muslim piety as an economy in its own right. Interdisciplinary in nature and based on in-depth empirical studies, the book considers issues such as the Qur'anic prohibition of corruption and anti-corruption reforms; the emergence of the Islamic economy under colonialism; 'halal' or 'lawful' production, trade, regulation and consumption; modesty in Islamic fashion marketing communications; and financialisation, consumerism and housing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and religious studies with interests in Islam and Southeast Asia.


Johan Fischer is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia ; The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market ; Islam, Standards, and Technoscience: In Global Halal Zones ; Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective ; Religion, Regulation, Consumption: Globalising Kosher and Halal Markets ; and Kosher and Halal Business Compliance .

Jérémy Jammes is Associate Professor at the Research Institute of Asian Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. He is author of Les oracles du Cao Ðài. Étude d'un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux and Chrétiens évangéliques d'Asie du Sud-Est. Expériences locales d'une ferveur conquérante, and was Deputy Director of the French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) from 2010 to 2014.

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