ABSTRACT
Scholars have often been inattentive to the religious lives of Muslims outside of the MENA region. Asia is, in particular, an understudied part of the world in Islamic Studies. In this chapter, Sophia Arjana explores the diversity of Muslim ziyarah (pilgrimage) in Asia, with special attention placed on Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. These spaces include mosques, graves of local saints, and popular shrines. This contribution is attentive to the local histories involved in constituting these sites, and to the fluidity that can be ascribed to some of these pilgrimages. The author frames these sites within Soja’s notion of Thirdspace, which sees bodies as active agents of meaning that create fluid and changing religious spaces.
