Overview
Although more than half of the world's Muslims live in Asia, most books on contemporary Islam focus on the Middle East, giving short shift to the dynamic and diverse presence of Asian Islam in regional and global politics. The Muslims of Asia constitute the largest Muslim communities in the world - Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Central Asia. In recent years, terrorist bombings in Bali, separatist conflicts in Thailand and the Philippines, and opposition politics in Central Asia, all point to the strategic importance of Asian Islam.
- | Author: John L. Esposito
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0195333039
- | ISBN-13: 9780195333039
