Ramadan in Java: The Joy & Jihad of Ritual Fasting (Lund Studies in History of Religions) (v. 20)
By Andre Moller.
Description
Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan is both a joy and a jihad for the Islamic community in Java, and it is arguably the most highly esteemed Muslim ritual in Indonesia (and beyond). To be given the opportunity to abstain from food, drink and sexual relations from the early morning hours till sunset during an entire month in a tropical climate - only to fill the nights with additional and supererogatory Ramadanic rituals - is thus waited upon each year and seen as a true blessing. This is, according to the Javanese, what rightly can be denoted as the "greater Jihad." It is...
ISBN(s)
9122021167, 9789122021162
