“Mosques and Imams is a valuable contribution to the expanding ethnographic study of the devotional practices, social institutions and spiritual and political movements shaping the presence of Islam in today’s Indonesia.”

Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

“[The book] has a broad significance for scholars of Indonesian Islam beyond those seeking ethnographic details about eastern Indonesia, as well as for anyone with an interest in Islamic figures in other parts of the world whose roles are analogous to the imams described in this work.”

Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology

"This is a deeply original and pathbreaking book in the study of Islam in eastern Indonesia. Far-ranging and readable, this fine book should be required reading for anyone interested in the history and contemporary refiguration of Muslim knowledge, authority, and practice in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as a whole."

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

"This book provides an excellent outline of the history of traditions and local practices in eastern Indonesia and the Islamisation process in the region. By examining the role of local imams and mosques, we can see that Islamic
traditions continue to be upheld in eastern Indonesia and that Islam spread in the region through many different pathways. This book will be of particular interest to graduates and university students who focus their subjects on Southeast Asian social history."

Islamic Studies Review