The Ash'ari creed in Southeast Asia across the Centuries
Muslim Southeast Asia is known as a region thoroughly dominated by Sh??fi??i law and Ash??ari theology. This dominance was the result of a gradual marginalization of non-Ash??ari theology in the region and the linked ascendancy of a specific strand of Ash??arism based on the thought of the post-classical North African scholar Ab?? ??Abdall??h al-San??s?? (d. 895/1490). From the mid-18th century onwards local Islamic scholars have produced an extensive body of Ash??ari creeds, mainly in Malay, but also in other Southeast Asian languages, thereby firmly entrenching a common standard of orthodoxy across the region. By the mid-20th century, however, several challenges to the status quo had become manifest.
| An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies lecture | |
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| Date | 17 January 2018 |
| Time | 17:15 to 18:45 |
| Place | IAIS Building/LT1 |
| Provider | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Speaker(s) | Philipp Bruckmayr, University of Vienna |
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IAIS Building/LT1