Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-281) and index.
Contents
1. An ecumene in '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 visualized as a fractured umma below the winds -- 10. From the Meccan discourse of a Jawi ecumene to the Cairene discourse of an Indonesian homeland.
Summary
This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage.
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