Ernest Gellner’s characterization of this system as a “blueprint for a social order” was criticized by Talal Asad, who lamented the lack of a “coherent anthropology of” this system in an article that calls it a “discursive tradition.” Two antipodal countries’ figures in this system named Lyusi and Kalijaga recur throughout a book titled for this system. A 1960 book partly titled for an island distinguishes versions of this religion between the doctrinal santri and ritualistic abangan. One author used his technique of “thick description” to compare this religion’s divergent cultures in an African and an Asian country. For 10 points, a Clifford Geertz book titled for what religion “observed” discusses its practice in Morocco and Indonesia? ■END■
ANSWER: Islam [accept Islam Observed; prompt on religion until read] (The 1960 book is Geertz’s The Religion of Java.)
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