A central tenet of Islamic practice holds that reading the Qurʾan is an act of devotion that will be rewarded by Allah. Although this belief is widespread in Indonesia, reading [...]
Social media may create narrow communities of fellowship, but they can also introduce esoteric knowledge to broader communities. In this essay, I trace the rise of a nationally popular Muslim [...]
Ibu Wiwin, a mother of two in her mid-thirties, lives in a comfortable gated housing community in the northern suburbs of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although her husband works for an international [...]
When Febrianti Almeera started blogging in 2010 in Bandung, Indonesia’s education and technology hub, she did not know whether there were also other young women who identified with her experience [...]
As I watch your eyes There is cloud of yesterday’s grief and wounds, No need to mourn As God will change it for happiness, Start the day With bright [...]
"Sampai ke mana?" Or "How far could it go?" Imagining how far her self-portraits might circulate online, 30-year old Ani, a college graduate and entrepreneur in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, mused about the [...]
“When we were helping to collect donations through Merapi Care after the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010 we realized that the money was getting short. My arisan friends [...]
2017 marks the eighth anniversary of habiblutf.net, the official website of Indonesia’s most well-known contemporary Sufi (Islamic mysticism) master, Habib Luthfi bin Yahya (b. 1947). A native of Pekalongan, Central Java, [...]
Carla Jones (University of Colorado Boulder) and Martin Slama (Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) Popular uses of smartphones at an Islamic college in Indonesia. (Photograph by Martin [...]
Puerto Rican workers harvesting sugarcane circa 1946. (Jack Delano / Courtesy of the Office of Information for Puerto Rico, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios [...]
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