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Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia Michael Francis Laffan

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia By Michael Francis Laffan

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia by Michael Francis Laffan

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This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage.

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia Summary

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds by Michael Francis Laffan

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.

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia Reviews

'All readers should be duly impressed by the considerable achievements of this new book. Laffan's study demonstates impressive erudition, analytical skill, and a supra-regional breadth rarely found in Southeast Asian Studies.' - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

'This is a work which should be an integral part of university courses dealing with the history of both Islam and nationalism in Southeast Asia.' - Southeast Asian Studies


'All readers should be duly impressed by the considerable achievements of this new book. Laffan's study demonstates impressive erudition, analytical skill, and a supra-regional breadth rarely found in Southeast Asian Studies.' -Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

About Michael Francis Laffan

Michael Laffan obtained his doctorate from the University of Sydney, 2001. He is currently a visiting fellow with the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, working within a project examining development of religious authority in twentieth century Indonesia. Michael Laffan is the winner of the ASAA President's Award 2002.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. An Ecumene in the 'The Lands Below the Winds' 2. Arab Priests and Pliant Pilgrims 3. The Hijazi Experience and Direct Colonial Visions of the heart of the Ecumene 4. Colonizing Islam and the Western-Oriented Project of Indies Nationhood 5. Reorientation among the Jawa of Mecca 6. The Jawa and Cairo 7. Islamic Voices from Singapore, Java, and Sumatra 8. Towards an Indigenous and Islamic Indonesia 9. Indonesia Visualised as a Fractured Umma below the Winds 10. From the Meccan Discourse of a Jawi Ecumene to the Cairene Discourse of an Indonesian Homeland

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NLS9780415444354
9780415444354
0415444357
Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds by Michael Francis Laffan
Michael Francis Laffan
SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2007-05-18
312
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