Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia

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Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique, Yasmin Hussain
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985 - Social Science - 407 pages

This volume of selected readings on Islam is a portrait of the Southeast Asian Islamic mosaic, with emphasis on the contemporary period. The collection of articles also serves to reflect the broad thematic interest of scholars — not only indigenous and foreign, but also Muslim and non-Muslim — who have contributed to an understanding of Islam in Southeast Asia.

 

Contents

G W J DREWES New Light on the Coming of Islam to Indonesia?
7
Problems of Perspective
20
A Transformation
44
HARRY J BENDA Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje and the Foundations
61
R O WINSTEDT Malay Beliefs and Religion
78
An Examination of Conflict
94
INTRODUCTION
133
K J RATNAM Religion and Politics in Malaya
143
CESAR ADIB MAJUL Problems in the Implementation of Sharia
236
UMAR JUNUS The Payment of Zakat AlFitrah in a Minangkabau
247
KOENTJARANINGRAT Javanese Terms for God and Supernatural Beings
286
S HUSIN ALI Religion at the Village Level
293
FRASER Jr Rusembilan as a Moslem Community
302
SHARIFFUDDIN The Kedayans
312
KIEFER Folk Islam and the Supernatural
323
SAID RAMADAN Three Major Problems Confronting the World
329

FEDERSPIEL The Military and Islam in Sukarnos
151
CLIVE S KESSLER The Politics of Islamic Egalitarianism
159
ALLAN A SAMSON Indonesian Islam since the New Order
165
Malaysia
171
The Position of Muslim Minorities
180
SEDDIK TAOUTI The Forgotten Muslims of Kampuchea and Viet
193
NOEL J COULSON The Concept of Progress and Islamic Law
203
AHMAD IBRAHIM The Position of Islam in the Constitution
213
SAIFUDDIN ANSHARI Islam or the Panca Sila as the Basis of
221
ABDUL MAJEED MOHAMED MACKEEN The Shariah Law Courts
229
Religion
337
G SWIFT Minangkabau and Modernization
346
CHANDRA MUZAFFAR Malayism Bumiputraism and Islam
356
MUHAMMAD KAMAL HASSAN Muslim Ideological Responses to
362
NURCHOLISH MADJID The Issue of Modernization among Muslims
379
Abbreviations of Journals
388
CLIFFORD GEERTZ The Religion of Java 271
395
Notes on the Compilers
408
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About the author (1985)

 • Ahmad Ibrahim is with the International Islamic University, Malaysia

• Sharon Siddique is a Director of Sreekumar Siddique & Co., an international research firm

• Yasmin Hussain was formerly associated with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies where she was a Research Associate from 1984-1985

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