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A History of Islam in Indonesia: Unity in Diversity

by Carool Kersten
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780748681846
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
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  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: USD 37.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 340 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Islam / History and Asia / Southeast Asia

Located on the eastern periphery of the historical Muslim world, as a political entity Indonesia is barely a century old. Yet with close to a quarter of a billion followers of Islam it is now the largest and most populous Muslim country in the world. As the greatest political power in Southeast Asia, and a growing player on the world scene, Indonesia presents itself as a bridge country between Asia, the wider Muslim world and the West.
In this survey Carool Kersten presents the Islamisation of Indonesia from the first evidence of the acceptance of Islam by indigenous peoples in the late thirteenth century until the present day. He provides comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world, the religion's role as a means of resistance and tool for nation building, and postcolonial attempts to forge an 'Indonesian Islam'.

Kersten, Carool: - Carool Kersten is Research Professor in Islamic studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium and Emeritus Reader at King's College London. He is also a senior research associate of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper in Slovenia. He is the author of Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World: Trends Themes, and Issues (Routledge 2019), A History of Islam in Indonesia (EUP, 2017), Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015) and Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (2011).

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