The Routledge Handbook of Islam in Asia offers both new and established scholarship on Muslim societies and religious practices across Asia, from a variety of interdisciplinary angles, with chapters covering South, Central, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa-Asia connections.

Part I: Frames 1. Studying Islam: the view from Asia 2. Minoritization, racialization, and Islam in Asia 3. The five pillars and Indonesia's musical soundscape 4. Islam and Sanskritic imaginaires in Southern Asia: Mount Meru in Arabia 5. Islamic feminisms in Asia: Trials and tribulations for Muslim women Part II: Authority and authorizing practices 6. Eastern African doyens in South Asia: Premodern Islamic intellectual interactions 7. The making of Qiz Bibi in Central Asia's oral shrine traditions: From the Great Lady to a fourteen-year-old virgin 8. The Ismailis of Badakhshan: Conversion and narrative in highland Asia 9. Islamic law in Xinjiang 10. Major turning points for Shi¿i Islam in modern South Asia: Princely states, partition, and a revolution 11. Making Islamic finance in South Asia: The state, the seminary, and the business corporation 12. In the halal zones of Malaysia and Singapore Part III: Muslim spatialities 13. South Asian Shi'i sacred geography: Tracing 'Ali's footprints 14. Muslim pilgrimage in Southeast Asia: Saints among the rice fields 15. ¿ärami Sufi-scholars and their shrines in Southeast Asia: A geography of sanctity 16. Sacred spaces and the making of Sufism in Sri Lanka: Between violence and piety 17. Muslim interactions between Central Asia, China, and imperial Japan 18. Mosque architecture and decoration in China Part IV: Imaginations of piety 19. Mapping the trajectory of Islam in Chinese terms: Community matters 20. The "moral background" of work in Central Asia: The sacred in the mundane 21. Pious lives of Soviet Muslims 22. Two Deobandi views on being Muslim in India: Indian bodies, Meccan hearts 23. The Tablighi Jama'at movement in maritime Southeast Asia: Piety in motion 24. A tree enrooted: African Sufi saints as "lineage deities" of a Muslim community of East African ancestry in Western India (Gujarat and Mumbai)