[PDF] Islamic Nationhood And Colonial Indonesia eBook

Author : Michael Francis Laffan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134430817

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Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn to both reformism and nationalism. After demonstrating the close linkage between Cairene ideology and Indonesian nationalism, Laffan shows how developments in the Middle East continued to play a role in shaping Islamic politics in colonial Indonesia.

Author : Michael Laffan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691162166

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Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz--Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more violent, intolerant Islamic traditions that were originally imposed by conquering Arab armies. The Makings of Indonesian Islam challenges this widely accepted narrative, offering a more balanced assessment of the intellectual and cultural history of the most populous Muslim nation on Earth. Michael Laffan traces how the popular image of Indonesian Islam was shaped by encounters between colonial Dutch scholars and reformist Islamic thinkers. He shows how Dutch religious preoccupations sometimes echoed Muslim concerns about the relationship between faith and the state, and how Dutch-Islamic discourse throughout the long centuries of European colonialism helped give rise to Indonesia's distinctive national and religious culture. The Makings of Indonesian Islam presents Islamic and colonial history as an integrated whole, revealing the ways our understanding of Indonesian Islam, both past and present, came to be.

Author : Karel A. Steenbrink
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042020719

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This book tells the story of the contacts and conflicts between muslims and christians in Southeast Asia during the Dutch colonial history from 1596 until 1950. The author draws from a great variety of sources to shed light on this period: the letters of the colonial pioneer Jan Pietersz. Coen, the writings of 17th century Dutch theologians, the minutes of the Batavia church council, the contracts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) with the sultans in the Indies, documents from the files of colonial civil servants from the 19th and 20th centuries, to mention just a few. The colonial situation was not a good starting-point for a religious dialogue. With Dutch power on the increase there was even less understanding for the religion of the muslims . In 1620 J.P. Coen, the strait-laced calvinist, had actually a better understanding and respect for the muslims than the liberal colonial leaders from the early 20th century, convinced as they were of western supremacy.

Author : Muhamad Ali
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1474409210

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This book offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Chiara Formichi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004260463

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A testament to the relevance of historical research in understanding contemporary politics, Islam and the Making of the Nation guides the reader through the contingencies of the past that have led to the transformation of a nationalist leader into a 'separatist rebel' and a 'martyr', while at the same time shaping the public perception of political Islam and strengthening the position of the Pancasila in contemporary Indonesia.

Author : Kris Alexanderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108472028

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This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

Author : Chiara Formichi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107106125

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An accessible, transregional exploration of how Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today.

Author : Kevin W. Fogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108487874

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The decolonization of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, was seen by up to half of the population as a religious struggle. Utilizing a combination of oral history and archival research, Kevin W. Fogg presents a new understanding of the Indonesian revolution and of Islam as a revolutionary ideology.