Ummah yet Proletariat : Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic / Lin Hongxuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hongxuan, Lin, author.

Series:

Religion and global politics.

Religion and Global Politics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and Islam.

Islam and politics--Indonesia.

Islam and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Ummah Yet Proletariat explores how Islam and Marxism were both integral to Indonesian politics from the earliest days of the anticolonial movement to the imposition of the autocratic Soeharto regime in 1966. Lin Hongxuan demonstrates that many Indonesian Muslims adapted Marxist ideas, while many Indonesian Marxists found ways to square their Islamic identity with their political commitments. In doing so, he upends the conventional, state-driven narrative that Islam and Marxism are mutually exclusive and argues that these confluences were the product of Indonesian participation in broader networks of intellectual exchange across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Ummah Yet Proletariat

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Incubating Communism in the Netherlands East Indies

Early Confluences: PKI and Sarekat Islam

Islamic Communist Newspapers throughout the Indies

Islamic Communism under a Microscope: Djago! Djago!

The PKI and Islam: Sinar Hindia /​ Api

Literary Traces: Hikayat Kadirun and Studen Hijo

Conclusion

2. New Modes of Movement

Pergerakan Print Culture in the 1930s

Muslim Modernists: Soeara Islam and Soeara PSII

The Persatuan Muslim Indonesia (Permi)

The Diniyyah Schools' Alumni

The Avant-​Garde: Kritiek en Opbouw

Novels of the 1930s: Buiten het Gareel and Hadji Dadjal

Soekarno's "Islam Progresif"

3. The Revolutionary Consensus

Republican Political Alignments in Brief

Tan Malaka's Partisans: Soeara Merdeka, Sajuti Melik, and the Murba Party

Amir Sjarifuddin and the Front Demokrasi Rakjat

The "Religious Socialists": Muslim Revolutionaries and Marxism

Muslims in the Labor Movement

Popular Print: Tamar Djaja's Trio Komoenis Indonesia (1946)

Localized Syncretism: "To Mecca via Moscow!"

4. A Critical Ummah, a Conscious Proletariat

Muslim Parliamentarians and the Allure of Socialism

Pious Communists in the PKI

The Many Flavors of Indonesian Marxism

The Soekarnoist Synthesis

Islam and Marxism in Cultural Production

5. Epilogue: NASAKOM and Its Proponents

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-765739-7

0-19-765740-0

0-19-765741-9