Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam _Bianca J. Smith, Mark Woodward

Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam

Leaders, feminists, Sufis and pesantren selves (2013)

Bianca J. Smith, Mark Woodward

Format PDF 1.28 MB

Pages 207

Series editor’s foreword ix

Acknowledgements x

Notes on contributors xi

Introduction: de-colonizing Islam and Muslim feminism 1

BIANCA J. SMITH AND MARK WOODWARD

PART I

Female leadership and Muslim agency 23

1 Between Sufi and Salafi subjects: female leadership, spiritual

power and gender matters in Lombok 25

BIANCA J. SMITH AND SAIPUL HAMDI

2 Leadership and authority: women leading dayah in Aceh 49

ASNA HUSIN    

3 Gender in contemporary Acehnese dayah: moving beyond

docile agency? 66

EKA SRIMULYANI

PART II

Female spiritual authority in Sufi orders and mystical groups 81

4 When wahyu comes through women: female spiritual

authority and divine revelation in mystical groups and

pesantren-Sufi orders 83

BIANCA J. SMITH

5 Reframing the gendered dimension of Islamic spirituality:

silsilah and the ‘problem’ of female leadership in tarekat 103

ASFA WIDIYANTO

PART III

Muslim feminisms: Islamic and Islamist orientations 117

6 Interpreting and enacting Islamic feminism in Pesantren

Al-Muayyad Windan 119

SAIPUL HAMDI

7 Women’s negotiation of status and space in a Muslim

fundamentalist movement 135

INAYAH ROHMANIYAH

PART IV

Sexuality, shari’ah and power 155

8 The tawdry tale of ‘Syech’ Puji and Luftiana: child marriage and

polygamy on the boundary of the pesantren world 157

MARK WOODWARD AND INAYAH ROHMANIYAH

9 Constructing sexuality in a panopticon pesantren 175

MUSTAGHFIROH RAHAYU

Glossary 187

Index 190