Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
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Reviews:
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Carla Jones)
American Ethnologist (Ismail Fajrie Alatas)
The Journal of Asian Studies (James Hoesterey)
Politics, Religion & Ideology (Michael Buehler)
Reading Religion (Jessica Soedirgo)
The Australian Journal of Anthropology (Julian Millie)
Pacific Affairs (Etin Anwar)
Bijdragen tot de voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde (Daniel Birchok)
Journal of Contemporary Religions (Abdulkader Tayob)
Contemporary Southeast Asia (Charlotte Setijadi)
Indonesia (Kristina Grossman)
South East Asia Research (Chiara Formichi)
Sophia (Quinn A. Clark)

Straying from the Straigh Path: How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Co-edited with Daan Beekers.
New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018
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Straying from the Straight Path

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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’

Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Reviews:
American Ethnologist (Robert Hefner)
Reading Religion (American Academy of Religion) (Devaka Premawardhana)
Journal of Contemporary Religion

Studying Female Islamic Authority: From Top-Down to Bottom-Up Modes of Certification
Co-edited with Mirjam Künkler
Asian Studies Review 40 (4), 2016.
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Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practice, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh
Co-edited with R. Michael Feener and Annemarie Samuels.  Leiden: Brill.
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Islam and the Limits of the State

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This book examines the relationship between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. With chapters covering topics ranging from NGOs and diaspora politics to female ulama and punk rockers, the volume opens new perspectives on the complexity of Muslim discourse and practice in a society that has experienced tremendous changes since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These detailed accounts of and critical reflections on how different groups in Acehnese society negotiate their experiences and understandings of Islam highlight the complexity of the ways in which the state is both a formative and a limited force with regard to religious and social transformation.

Review:
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Daniel Birchok)

2013. Strengthening Local Leadership: Shari’a, Customs and the Dynamics of Vigilante Violence in Aceh, Indonesia. Research report prepared for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Islam Research Project-Jakarta).

Nancy Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press, 2019.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (forthcoming 2021).

Muhamad Ali, Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya. Edinburgh University Press, 2015
Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2020)

Doreen Lee, Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia. Duke University Press, 2016.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25, 4 (2019), 825-26.

Julian Millie, Hearing Allah’s Call: Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017. 
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 174, 4 (2018), 517-20.

Catherine Smith, Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017.
Conflict and Society 4 (2018), 292-94.

Sher Banu A.L. Khan, Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 174, 2-3 (2018), 320-23.

Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi, Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Singapore and Kyoto: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2015.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 172, 2-3 (2016),  9-11.

R. Michael Feener, Shari’a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 171, 2-3 (2015), 380-83.

Amelia Fauzia, Faith and the State: A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 170, 4 (2014), 576-79.

Jesse H. Grayman, Humanitarian Encounters in Post-conflict Aceh. PhD dissertation, Harvard University.
Dissertation Reviews (2014).

A. Graf, S. Schröter and E. Wierenga, eds. Aceh: History, Politics and Culture. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010.
Pacific Affairs 86, 1 (2013), 193-95.

Yeoh Seng Guan et al., eds. Penang and its Region: The Story of an Asian Entrepôt. Singapore: NUS Press, 2009.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 167, 4 (2011), 596-98.

Coeli Barry, ed. The Many Ways of Being Muslim: Fiction by Muslim Filipinos.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 165, 4 (2009), 570-72.

Colonial Pathologies and Racial Injustice
KITLV Blog (2020).

The Page 99 Test: Becoming Better Muslims
http://page99test.blogspot.com (2018).

Images of Authority
Co-authored with Leonie Schmidt
Leiden Islam Blog (2017).

A Morning of Mourning: Images from Bangkok.
KITLV Blog (2016).

The Silence in the ‘Minute of Silence’
Co-authored with Mahmood Kooria
Leiden Islam Blog (2016).

On the Unexpected Virtue of ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’
KITLV Blog (2015).

An Artist for KITLV’s Expanding Film Archive?
KITLV Blog (2015).

2009. Praten over Polygamie in Aceh
Standplaats Wereld (Anthropology Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Citi Yousoff’s Spiritual Journey and the Arts of Divine Calligraphy and Graceful Indifference
Longread, Leiden Islam Blog (2021).

Teachers, Missionaries and Activists: Female Religious Leadership and Social Mobility in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1960s
Co-authored with Kirsten Kamphuis and Iris Busschers
IIAS Newsletter 85 (2020), 6-7.

Religious Idioms of Vulnerability
Co-authored with Annemarie Samuels
Inside Indonesia 136 (2019).

Foreword
In: Muhajir Alfairusy, Singkel: Sejarah, Etnisitas, dan Dinamika Sosial. Denpasar: Pustaka Larasan, 2016, pp. vi-ix.

Female Islamic Authority in Comparative Perspective: Exemplars, Institutions, Practices (Workshop report)
Co-authored with Mirjam Künkler.
IIAS Newsletter 70 (2015), 48-49.

Supporting Syariah, Advancing Women
Inside Indonesia 101 (2010).

Politics and society in Malaysia: Whither the ethnic factor?
In: New Malaysia Cinema. Film Festival Catalogue, Rialto Amsterdam (2008).