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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969-

Series:

Princeton studies in Muslim politics.

Princeton studies in Muslim politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Indonesia--History.

Sufism.

Islam--Indonesia--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Inspiration, rememoration, reform. Remembering islamization, 1300n-1750

Embracing a new curriculum, 1750n-1830

Reform and the widening muslim sphere, 1830n-1890

pt 2. Power in quest of knowledge. Four foundational visions of Indies Islam, 1600n-1800

New regimes of knowledge, 1800n-1865

Seeking the counterweight church, 1837n-1889

pt. 3. Orientalism engaged. Distant musings on a crucial colony, 1882n-1888

Collaborative encounters, 1889n-1892

Shadow muftis, Christian modern, 1892n-1906

pt. 4. Sufi pasts, modern futures

From Sufism to Salafism, 1905n-1911

Advisors to Indonesie, 1906n-1919

Hardenings and partings, 1919n-1942.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613152541

9781283152549

1283152541

9781400839995

1400839998

OCLC:

742516940