Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam

Bianca J. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and an Honorary Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. Mark Woodward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, USA.

Introduction: De-colonizing Islam and Muslim feminism Part 1:Female Leadership and Muslim Agency 1. Between Sufi and Salafi Subjects: Contested female leadership, spiritual power and gender matters in Lombok 2. Leadership and Authority: Women leading dayah in Aceh 3. Gender in Contemporary Acehnese Dayah: Moving beyond docile agency? Part 2: Female Spiritual Authority in Sufi Orders and Mystical Groups 4. When Wahyu Comes through Women: Female spiritual authority and divine revelation in mystical groups and pesantren-Sufi orders 5. Reframing the Gendered Dimension of Islamic Spirituality: Silsilah and the ‘problem’ of female leadership in tarekat Part 3: Muslim Feminisms: Islamic and Islamist orientations 6. Interpreting and Enacting Islamic Feminism in Pesantren Al-Muayyad Windan7. Women’s Negotiation of Status and Space in a Muslim Fundamentalist Movement Part 4: Sexuality, Shari’ah and Power 8. The Tawdry Tale of ‘Syech’ Puji and Lutfiana: Child marriage and polygamy on the boundary of the pesantren world9. Constructing Sexuality in a Panopticon Pesantren