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    Stealing Women, Stealing Men: Co-creating cultures of polygamy in a peasantren community in eastern Indonesia
    SMITH, B (Bridgewater State University, 2009)
    The article examines how particular elements of Sasak society structurally facilitate a culture of polygamy in a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) which is managed by male Muslim teachers and preachers (Tuan Guru) who maintain a paradoxical position in society that implicates women in the co-creation of polygamy. By culturally situating Muslim women's experiences in wider Indonesian and local Sasak discursive contexts, and based on anthropological field research techniques, the article elucidates how Muslim women draw on a range of magical forces and prayers that they learn from their Muslim teachers in the pesantren in response to customary marriage laws of 'bride stealing' and orthodox Islam that enable the reproduction of polygamy on the island of Lombok in Eastern Indonesia.
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    Leading, healing, seeking: Sufi women defy traditional beliefs about female spiritual inferiority
    SMITH, B (Indonesia Resources & Information Programme, 2011)
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    RE-ORIENTING FEMALE SPIRITUAL POWER IN ISLAM Narrating conflict between warriors, witches and militias in Lombok
    Smith, BJ (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2012)
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    The recovery of a non-violent identity for an Islamist pesantren in an age of terror
    Hamdi, S ; Carnegie, PJ ; Smith, BJ (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2015-11-02)
    This article examines the ways in which one of Indonesia's largest local, non-violent fundamentalist Islamist groups, Hidayatullah, has worked towards recovering a non-violent identity in the aftermath of allegations of terrorism made by the international community at the height of the War on Terror. Significantly, in international circles post-September 11, Indonesia's pesantren (Islamic boarding school) network more generally became associated with terrorism as they were seen as potential breeding grounds for Islamist extremism. Subsequently, allegations emerged implicating Hidayatullah as part of an extremist organised network linked to Jemaah Islamiyah and, by extension, Al Qaeda. The article demonstrates how, in the aftermath of the allegations, the group negotiated with the wider society and the state's national security laws on terrorism as it worked to recover its non-violent identity. In doing so, it also raises further questions about methodological practices in distinguishing between the heterogeneity and subjectivities within wider Islamist movements, especially in terms of militant and non-violent forms of Islamism.