Pan-Islam and Indonesia

Pan-Islam and Indonesia
Author: Gautam Jha
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2012
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 9783847370895

The work deals with stepwise percolation of Islam in Indonesia vis-a-vis reaction of Indonesian societies which have primarily been seasoned in mix culture of Animism, Buddhism, Hinduism and other pre-existing tradition which they proudly call it as adaat. Islam being the major religion, religious forces have long been trying to enforce it in the political system of the country bringing modern pan-Islamic ethos by taking inspiration from Iranian Revolution to establish shariah as the basis of Indonesian Constitution ignoring the Pancasila, the basis of present Constitution of Indonesia. Islam as compared to other pan-Islamic countries has never been a fundamental basis of the lives of Indonesian people. However as a major political tool and various charities coming from outside Muslim world, few political parties have been able to generate more supports from Indigenous people to support the cause of establishing Indonesia as an Islamic state."

Islam and Asia

Islam and Asia
Author: Chiara Formichi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107106125

An accessible, transregional exploration of how Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today.

Islam and the Making of the Nation

Islam and the Making of the Nation
Author: Chiara Formichi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004260463

A testament to the relevance of historical research in understanding contemporary politics, Islam and the Making of the Nation guides the reader through the contingencies of the past that have led to the transformation of a nationalist leader into a 'separatist rebel' and a 'martyr', while at the same time shaping the public perception of political Islam and strengthening the position of the Pancasila in contemporary Indonesia.

International Society and the Middle East

International Society and the Middle East
Author: B. Buzan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2009-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230234356

International Society and the Middle East brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society.

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia

Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia
Author: Michael Francis Laffan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134430817

Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn to both reformism and nationalism. After demonstrating the close linkage between Cairene ideology and Indonesian nationalism, Laffan shows how developments in the Middle East continued to play a role in shaping Islamic politics in colonial Indonesia.

Dutch Policy Against Islam and Indonesians of Arab Descent in Indonesia

Dutch Policy Against Islam and Indonesians of Arab Descent in Indonesia
Author: Hamid Algadri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1994
Genre: Arabs
ISBN:

Table of contents: Preface. Foreword. I. Introduction. II. Perculiarities in the legal status of Indonesians of Arab descendants. III. Causes of the peculiarities. IV. Arrival of the Portuguese and the Dutch as a continuation of the war againast islam. V. Snouck Hurgronje opposed the assimilation of the Arab descendants in Indonesia. VI. Islam uprisings in the 19th century and their influence on the Dutch colonial policy. VII. Snouck Hurgronje opposed the Pan-Islam movement. VIII. Action and reaction of the Arab descendants towards Indonesia's Nationalist movement. IX. Basic principles of the Indonesian Arab Party (PAI). X. PAI, Soetardjo's petition and the federation of Indonesian Political Parties (GAPI). etc.

Piety and Public Opinion

Piety and Public Opinion
Author: Thomas B. Pepinsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190697822

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to reevaluate their place in the global community of states, turning away from alignments with the West or the Global South and towards an Islamic civilizational identity? The answers to all of these questions depend, at least in part, on what ordinary Muslims think and do. In order to provide these answers, the authors of this book look to Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country and one of the world's only consolidated Muslim democracies. They draw on original public opinion data to explore how religiosity and religious belief translate into political and economic behavior at the individual level. Across various issue areas--support for democracy or Islamic law, partisan politics, Islamic finance, views about foreign engagement--they find no evidence that the religious orientations of Indonesian Muslims have any systematic relationships with their political preferences or economic behavior. The broad conclusion is that scholars of Islam, in Indonesia and elsewhere, must understand religious life and individual piety as part of a larger and more complex set of social transformations. These transformations include modernization, economic development, and globalization, each of which has occurred in parallel with Islamic revivalism throughout the world. Against the common assumption that piety would naturally inhibit any tendencies towards modernity, democracy, or cosmopolitanism, Piety and Public Opinion reveals the complex and subtle links between religion and political beliefs in a critically important Muslim democracy.