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Transnational Learning Networks Amongst Asian Muslims: An Introduction*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2014

CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT
CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT*
Affiliation:
Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and King's India Institute, King's College London Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The students of transnational flows, including James Rosenau,1 have pertinently highlighted the growing assertion of ‘sovereign free actors’ at the expense of ‘sovereign bound actors’ in what they call postinternational politics.2 Dealing mostly with the end of the Cold War era, they have tended to focus on the increasingly important role of not only the multinational firms but also of the financial companies on newly globalized markets, and not only law-abiding but also illicit traffickers (of drugs, arms etc.) which have prospered along with increasingly more effective means of communication.

They have almost completely ignored the transnationalization of religions, except from the point of view of fundamentalisms and related terrorist networks. Sociologists have paid more attention to this development.3 But these studies, which have mostly focused on the impact of migrations,4 have tended to under estimate the resilience of state boundaries5 and have often neglected the circulation of ideas, especially from the point of view of the learning networks—the very object of this Special Issue which concentrates on one particular creed: Islam.

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SPECIAL ISSUE INTRODUCTION
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2: Networks of Religious Learning and the Dissemination of Religious Knowledge across Asia , March 2014 , pp. 331 - 339
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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Footnotes

*

The papers in this Special Issue are drawn from a workshop that Christophe Jaffrelot and Miriam Künkler co-organized under the title, ‘Networks of Religious Learning and the Dissemination of Religious Knowledge across the Middle East and Asia’, and held in Hong Kong in June 2012 under the framework of the SSRC Initiative on Inter-Asian Connections III. The organisers are grateful to the sponsor of this event and to the participants to the meetings during which the original papers were discussed.

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