Shi'ism In South East Asia Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions

Chiara Formichi is Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Humanities at Cornell University. Her work centres on political Islam and nationalism, secularism as a marker of modernity, and issues of sectarianism, orthodoxy and pluralism. She is the author of Islam and the Making of the Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th century Indonesia (2012), and edited Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia (2013).

Michael Feener is Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization cluster at the Asia Research Institute, and Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. His books include: Shari'a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Aceh, Indonesia (2013), and Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia (2007).