Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Muslims in Thailand, as with those across the Muslim World, have been influenced by modernist, reformist, and revivalist trends from the Middle East and South Asia, challenging traditional religious leadership. This article applies Nile Green’s religious economies model to Thai Islam, focusing on five key figures: (1) ‘Ahmad Wahab, (2) Direk Kulsiriswad, (3) and Sheikh Rida ‘Ahmad Samadi in Bangkok, and (4) Ustadh ‘Abdullah Chinarong and (5) Ismail Lutfi Japakiya in the far South. We document the impact of transnational Islamic movement, the connections between them, and how all these were multilingual, cosmopolitan middlemen that reshaped the local practice of Islam in Thailand’s diverse religious landscape.
Source: Journal of the Siam Society
Authors: Christopher M. Joll, Hafiz Salae, Srawut Aree
Language: English
Topic: Islamic Studies and History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Chulalongkorn University
OpenAlex ID: W4410070372