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Author Ali, Muhamad, 1974- author.

Title Islam and colonialism : becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya / Muhamad Ali.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 335 pages .)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Making Islam modern. Organising Da'wah and spreading reform -- Colonising the Muslim East and reinforcing culture -- Modernising politics and government. Building Siyasah and reforming sultanate -- Controlling politics and bureaucratising religion -- Modernising law. Integrating Shari'ah, Adat and European laws -- Formalising legal plurality -- Modernising education. Teaching Agama and the secular -- Secularising education.
Summary Explores the ways in which Islam and European colonialism shaped modernity in the Indo-Malay world. 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. Key Features. Shows how Asian Muslims and European Christians developed modern approaches to politics, law and education which formed the basis for governance and civil society in the independent nations of Indonesia and Malaysia Adds to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Islam and the West Demonstrates that colonial-Islamic relations were less confrontational, both conceptually and institutionally, than has been previously believed Uses comparative history to emphasise common and parallel features between diverse forces for change
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Subject Islam -- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century.
Islam.
Malaysia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Islam -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Indonesia.
Islam -- Relations.
Relations.
Islam and secularism.
Islam and secularism.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ali, Muhamad, 1974- Islam and colonialism. Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] 9781474409209 (DLC) 2015510853 (OCoLC)932593921
ISBN 9781474409216 (electronic book)
1474409210 (electronic book)
9781474409223 (epub)
1474409229 (epub)
9781474418799
1474418791
9781474409209
1474409202
Standard No. YBP12779859