Making Sense of Thailand's "Merit-Making" Muslims: Adoption and Adaption of the Indic in the Creation of Islamicate Southern Thailand

This article presents an alternative to the analysis of Thai merit-making rhetoric (tham bun) that associates it with Theravada Buddhism and syncretic anomalies. A review of the processes through which Islam became an authentically Southeast Asian religion suggests that this merit-making conundrum i...

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Main Author: Christopher M. Joll
Format: Journal
Published: 2018
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http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/53175
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Institution: Chiang Mai University