Michael Francis Laffan

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia (eBook, ePUB)

The Umma Below the Winds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134430819
• Artikelnr.: 38259771

Autorenporträt

Michael Laffan obtained his doctorate from the University of Sydney, 2001. He is currently Assistant Professor at Princeton University, where he studies the history of Southeast Asia, focusing on the development of Indonesian nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the ongoing conversations between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Michael Laffan is the winner of the ASAA President's Award 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. An Ecumene in the 'The Lands Below the Winds' 2. Arab
Priests and Pliant Pilgrims 3. The Hijazi Experience and Direct Colonial
Visions of the heart of the Ecumene 4. Colonizing Islam and the
Western-Oriented Project of Indies Nationhood 5. Reorientation among the
Jawa of Mecca 6. The Jawa and Cairo 7. Islamic Voices from Singapore, Java,
and Sumatra 8. Towards an Indigenous and Islamic Indonesia 9. Indonesia
Visualised as a Fractured Umma below the Winds 10. From the Meccan
Discourse of a Jawi Ecumene to the Cairene Discourse of an Indonesian
Homeland