Muhamad Ali

Islam and Colonialism (eBook, PDF)

Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya

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Produktbeschreibung

It is commonly held that European colonization and the efforts to modernize Muslim lands challenged Islam and undermined local custom, and that Islamization was generally opposed to European ideas and technologies and rejected local beliefs and practices. While colonial historiographies tend to focus on the influence of European actors, Muslim nationalist and postcolonial scholars emphasize Muslim and native agencies. In the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya, however, the ideas and actions associated with the concept of modernity were formed as an outcome of the interplay between Islamic reform and European colonialism. In this book, the author offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century. In formulating and advancing their respective projects of organizational, political, legal, and educational reform, Muslim reformers and European colonial scholars and administrators often differed, but they were not always antagonistic. They sometimes worked in tandem in order to achieve common ends. The colonialists did not necessarily oppose Islam and local customs, and Islamic reformers did not always resist Western colonial rule and the processes of modernization and localization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474409216
• Artikelnr.: 44755264

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Making Islam Modern Chapter 1. Organizing Da'wah and Spreading
Reform Chapter 2. Colonizing the Muslim East and Reinforcing Culture
Part II: Modernizing Politics and Government Chapter 3. Building Siyasah
and Reforming Sultanate Chapter 4. Controlling Politics and Bureaucratizing
Religion
Part III: Modernizing Law Chapter 5. Integrating Shari'ah, Adat, and
European Laws Chapter 6. Formalizing Legal Plurality
Part IV: Modernizing Education Chapter 7. Teaching Agama and the Secular
Chapter 8. Secularizing Education
Conclusion Bibliography Index