On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims

This article analyses how the hijrah movement, a contemporary religious movement that reinterprets the meaning and practices of being pious, has gained widespread sympathy among Indonesian urban Muslims. Although numerous studies have endeavoured to scrutinize the phenomenon of hijrah in communities...

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主要作者: Fansuri, Hamzah
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:archipel_3485 https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.3485 urn:doi:10.4000/archipel.3485 en https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/3485 2023-07-17T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/a20k https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims Archipel Association Archipel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2104-3655 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0044-8613 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel Fansuri, Hamzah hijrah identity piety mobility urban Muslims This article analyses how the hijrah movement, a contemporary religious movement that reinterprets the meaning and practices of being pious, has gained widespread sympathy among Indonesian urban Muslims. Although numerous studies have endeavoured to scrutinize the phenomenon of hijrah in communities or movements, most focus on social media, and only a few examine their daily mobilities in urban life. By focusing on the Kajian Musawarah, one of Indonesia’s most prominent hijrah communities and employing interdependent mobilities, the article reveals those activists and followers of such community contest new Islamic identities through their intersections with various forms of urban mobilities. Within physical, imaginative, virtual, and communicative travel, the Kajian Musawarah amplifies the symbolic value of hijrah over Islamic attributes, including clothing, language and recitation circles to attract urban Muslims. Furthermore, their Islamic identity is also contesting many aspects of social life such as urban lifestyle, consumptive culture, and relation to other Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Cet article analyse comment le mouvement hijrah, un mouvement religieux contemporain réinterprétant le sens et les pratiques de la piété, a gagné une large sympathie parmi les musulmans urbains indonésiens. Bien que de nombreuses études aient tenté d'examiner le phénomène de la hijrah dans les communautés ou les mouvements qui la portent, la plupart de ces travaux se concentrent sur les médias sociaux, et seuls quelques-uns abordent la question des mobilités quotidiennes dans la vie urbaine. En se concentrant sur la Kajian Musawarah, l'une des communautés hijrah les plus importantes d'Indonésie, et en traitant des mobilités interdépendantes, l’article révèle que les activistes et les adeptes de cette communauté revendiquent de nouvelles identités islamiques à travers leurs intersections avec diverses formes de mobilités urbaines. Dans le cadre de déplacements physiques, imaginatifs, virtuels et communicatifs, le Kajian Musawarah amplifie la valeur symbolique de la hijrah par rapport aux attributs islamiques, y compris les vêtements, la langue et les cercles de récitation, afin d’attirer les musulmans urbains. En outre, l’identité islamique des membres de cette communauté, se heurte également à de nombreux aspects de la vie sociale, tels que le mode de vie urbain, la culture de la consommation et les relations avec les autres communautés, musulmanes et non musulmanes.
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topic hijrah
identity
piety
mobility
urban Muslims
spellingShingle hijrah
identity
piety
mobility
urban Muslims
Fansuri, Hamzah
On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
description This article analyses how the hijrah movement, a contemporary religious movement that reinterprets the meaning and practices of being pious, has gained widespread sympathy among Indonesian urban Muslims. Although numerous studies have endeavoured to scrutinize the phenomenon of hijrah in communities or movements, most focus on social media, and only a few examine their daily mobilities in urban life. By focusing on the Kajian Musawarah, one of Indonesia’s most prominent hijrah communities and employing interdependent mobilities, the article reveals those activists and followers of such community contest new Islamic identities through their intersections with various forms of urban mobilities. Within physical, imaginative, virtual, and communicative travel, the Kajian Musawarah amplifies the symbolic value of hijrah over Islamic attributes, including clothing, language and recitation circles to attract urban Muslims. Furthermore, their Islamic identity is also contesting many aspects of social life such as urban lifestyle, consumptive culture, and relation to other Muslim and non-Muslim communities.
author Fansuri, Hamzah
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title On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
title_short On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
title_full On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
title_fullStr On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
title_full_unstemmed On the Road of Hijrah: Contesting Identity through Urban Mobilities in Contemporary Indonesian Muslims
title_sort on the road of hijrah: contesting identity through urban mobilities in contemporary indonesian muslims
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