A01=Muhamad Ali
Author_Muhamad Ali
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Colonisation
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Indonesia
Malaysia
Modernisation
Southeast Asia
Product details
- ISBN 9781474409209
- Weight: 695g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia, this book looks at how European colonial and Islamic modernising powers operated in the common and parallel domains of government and politics, law and education in the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that colonialisation was able to co-exist with Islamisation, arguing that Islamic movements were not necessarily antithetical to modernisation, nor that Western modernity was always anathema to Islamic and local custom. Rather, in distinguishing religious from worldly affairs, they were able to adopt and adapt modern ideas and practices that were useful or relevant while maintaining the Islamic faith and ritual that they believed to be essential. In developing an understanding of the common ways in which Islam was defined and treated in Indonesia and Malaysia, we can gain a new insight to Muslim politics and culture in Southeast Asia.
Muhamad Ali is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published articles in several refereed journals including the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences and Indonesia and the Malay World.
