Salafism, Knowledge Production and Religious Education in Indonesia

Noorhaidi Hasan, - (2020) Salafism, Knowledge Production and Religious Education in Indonesia. In: The New Santri: Challenges to Traditional Religious Authority in Indonesia. ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, pp. 131-150. ISBN 978-981-4881-47-0

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The spread of the Salafi influence in Indonesia, which was inseparable from Saudi's ambitious campaign for Wahhabization of the Muslim umma, went hand in hand with the rise of a new type of Islamic activism and religious authorities. The story began with the dispatch of a dozen Indonesian students to study in the Salafi teaching centres in the Middle East. Upon returning home, they organized halqas and dauras and established Salafi madrasahs across Indonesia. In so doing they recruited loyal followers and sympathizers into their circles Salafi teaching centres and madrasalts had grown up into small Salafi communities and networks in which Salafi way of life constituted an integral element of the Salafis habitus and everyday life. The production, development, authorization and dissemination of Islamic knowledge in the networks created specific modes of binding and community building

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