The makings of Indonesian Islam : orientalism and the narration of a Sufi past /

"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 Gee...

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Main Author: Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Series:Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Inspiration, rememoration, reform. 1. Remembering Islamization, 1300-1750 ; 2. Embracing a new curriculum, 1750-1830 ; 3. Reform and the widening Muslim sphere, 1830-1890
  • Part II. Power in quest of knowledge. 4. Four foundational visions of Indies Islam, 1600-1800 ; 5. New regimes of knowledge, 1800-1865 ; 6. Seeking the counterweight church, 1837-1889
  • Part III. Orientalism engaged. 7. Distant musings on a crucial colony, 1882-1888 ; 8. Collaborative encounters, 1889-1892 ; 9. Shadow muftis, Christian modern, 1892-1906
  • Part IV. Sufi pasts, modern futures. 10. From Sufism to Salafism, 1905-1911 ; 11. Advisors to Indonesie, 1906-1919 ; 12. Hardenings and partings, 1919-1942
  • Conclusion.