Asian Studies Review, Volume 40, Issue 4 (2016)

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Studying Female Islamic Authority: From Top-Down to Bottom-Up Modes of Certification

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Contributors
Helen Deayton
Pages: iv-vi
Published online: 03 Oct 2016
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Studying Female Islamic Authority: From Top-Down to Bottom-Up Modes of Certification
David Kloos & Mirjam Künkler
Pages: 479-490
Published online: 03 Oct 2016
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Destabilising Male Domination: Building Community-Based Authority among Indonesian Female Ulama
Nor Ismah
Pages: 491-509
Published online: 15 Sep 2016
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Transforming the Social Role of Female Religious Professionals in Tajikistan
Anna Cieślewska
Pages: 510-526
Published online: 18 Sep 2016
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The Salience of Gender: Female Islamic Authority in Aceh, Indonesia
David Kloos
Pages: 527-544
Published online: 07 Sep 2016
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“You Are My Garment”: Muslim Women, Religious Education and Self-Transformation in Contemporary Singapore
Nurhaizatul Jamil
Pages: 545-563
Published online: 18 Sep 2016
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Models of Achievement: Muslim Girls and Religious Authority in a Modernist Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia
Claire-Marie Hefner
Pages: 564-582
Published online: 15 Sep 2016
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Women, Genealogical Inheritance and Sufi Authority: The Female Saints of Seunagan, Indonesia
Daniel Andrew Birchok
Pages: 583-599
Published online: 07 Sep 2016
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Fragmented Bureaucracies in Built Heritage Conservation: The Case of Shamian Island, Guangzhou
Anna Ka-Yin Lee
Pages: 600-618
Published online: 20 Sep 2016
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Securitising, Economising and Humanising Immigration: The Case of the Employment Permit System in South Korea
Sookyung Kim & Jeong-Woo Koo
Pages: 619-635
Published online: 20 Sep 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review
China’s civil war: a social history, 1945–1949
Clemens Büttner
Pages: 636-637
Published online: 28 Aug 2016
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Narratives of free trade: the commercial cultures of early US–China relations
Lei Yu
Pages: 637-638
Published online: 04 May 2016
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The globalization of Asian cuisines: transnational networks and culinary contact zones
Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Pages: 638-640
Published online: 24 Feb 2016
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Under bright lights: gay Manila and the global scene
Benedict Rowlett
Pages: 640-641
Published online: 01 May 2016
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Changing lives: the postwar in Japanese women’s autobiographies and memoirs
Beatrice Trefalt
Pages: 641-642
Published online: 01 May 2016
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Book Review
Imperial eclipse: Japan’s strategic thinking about continental Asia before August 1945
Michael Lewis
Pages: 642-644
Published online: 23 Jun 2016
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Book Review
A handbook of Korean Zen practice: a mirror on the Sŏn School of Buddhism (Sŏn’ga kwigam)
Gregory N. Evon
Pages: 644-645
Published online: 24 Feb 2016
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Book Review
The future of English in Asia: perspectives on language and literature
Nobuyuki Hino
Pages: 645-646
Published online: 23 Jun 2016
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Book Review
Three centuries of conflict in East Timor
Gerry van Klinken
Pages: 647-648
Published online: 24 Feb 2016
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Book Review
Ghosts of the new city: spirits, urbanity, and the ruins of progress in Chiang Mai
Erick White
Pages: 648-649
Published online: 24 Feb 2016
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Book Review
Opposing the rule of law: how Myanmar’s courts make law and order
Robert H. Taylor
Pages: 649-650
Published online: 04 May 2016
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 03 Oct 2016
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