Oman Fathurahman, Kawashima Midori, and Labi Sarip Riwarung (eds.), The Library of an Islamic Scholar of Mindanao: The Collection of Sheik Muhammad Said bin Imam sa Bayang at the Al-Imam As-Sadiq (A.S.) Library, Marawi City, Philippines: An Annotated Catalogue with Essays. Tokyo: Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University, 2019 (Occasional Papers No. 27), 460 pp. ISSN: 2189-5058.
The book is an impressive achievement, both for the depth and diligence of the scholarship presented within its pages, and for the long-term fieldwork and profound engagement with local stakeholders that brought it into being. Kawashima only briefly recounts how the groundwork for this research was...
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The book is an impressive achievement, both for the depth and diligence of the scholarship presented within its pages, and for the long-term fieldwork and profound engagement with local stakeholders that brought it into being. Kawashima only briefly recounts how the groundwork for this research was laid, beginning in 2000 (v-viii), and hardly mentions the armed conflict that has broken out in the region between Islamist militants and the forces of the Philippine government, the most tumultuo... |
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