The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726-1749 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726-1749 write by Merle Calvin Ricklefs. This book was released on 1998-01-01. The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726-1749 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original and deeply researched work on a key period of Javanese history, by a world expert.
Bandit Saints of Java
Bandit Saints of Java - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bandit Saints of Java write by George Quinn. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Bandit Saints of Java available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Java’s pilgrimage culture is a dense, batik-like pattern of contradictions: seriousness collides with laughter; curiosity with bewilderment; piety with scepticism; intense spirituality with, in some places, the joy of shopping. The pilgrimage culture on the island of Java in Indonesia – the world’s largest Muslim country – is a rebuke to the conservative orthodoxy that has been gaining ground in Indonesia’s religious landscape since the 1980s. In the rhetoric of this orthodoxy the “real” Islam is pure and exclusive. Piety comes from obedience to religious authority and its rules. Local pilgrimage is anything but pure and exclusive or rigidly authoritarian. It is powerfully Islamic but it fuses Islam with local history, the ancient power of place and a pastiche of devotional practices with roots deep in the pre-Islamic past. Quietly but tenaciously – just outside the great echo chamber of public space – it is growing as fast as the higher profile neo-orthodoxy. Bandit Saints of Java delves deep under the surface of modern Indonesia, exploring personalities and stories in the weird world of local pilgrimage, where Middle Eastern Islam wrestles with the ancient power of Javanese civilisation. It paints an astonishing portrait of Islam as it is practised today – largely invisible to journalists, scholars and tourists – by many of Java’s 130 million people.
Networks of Empire
Networks of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Networks of Empire write by Kerry Ward. This book was released on 2009. Networks of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Ward examines the Dutch East India Company's control of migration as an expression of imperial power.
Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia
Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia write by Ian Proudfoot. This book was released on 2018-12-24. Old Muslim Calendars of Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has been said that "a modern arrogance has blocked our access to the history of the Muslim calendar in Southeast Asia". Without at least the outlines of that history, we simply do not understand the basis of dates found in Malay sources. Also, without a history of Malay calendars we are denied an understanding of the context from which the Javanese Muslim calendar arose. This volume, the result of combining empirical evidence with a sound understanding of the structural requirements of calendar-making, and of the mechanisms through which these needs could be met, for the first time explains how these old octaval calendars actually worked. It traces the history of Muslim calendars in Southeast Asia, and attempts to put them into their historical and cultural context. Understanding the old calendars will at last throw light on a number of essential aspects of older Malay science and culture. An accompanying interactive CD-ROM presents the reader with a tool for converting Malay and Javanese dates, with access to the range of variant calendars.
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia write by A. Azra. This book was released on 2022-02-22. The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Internationally respected scholar Professor Azyumardi Azra examines the transmission of Islamic reformism from the Middle East to Indonesia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
