HDS 3174: Islamic Missions: Reforming Muslim South and Southeast Asia

Instructor: Teren Sevea

How did Islamic missions and missionaries reform Muslim South and Southeast Asia? What Islamic missionary idioms, orientations and movements emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Were South and Southeast Asia global centers of Islamic missionary activity? What kinds of Islamic educational institutions developed in modernity? How did Muslim reformists appropriate technologies? What materials were printed by Muslim missionaries and scholars in South and Southeast Asia? What jihad did Islamic missionaries and reformists call for in modernity? How did Muslim ‘modernists’ and ‘traditionalists’ respond to the challenges of colonialism and modernity? What was the nature of Sufism in modern South and Southeast Asia? What was the nature of Islamism in these regions? How has the history of Islamic missions been remembered in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan? This discussion-based, lecture class answers these questions, and more. It is an introductory course and requires no background knowledge of the subjects.