Islamisation and its opponents in Java : a political, social, cultural and religious history, c. 1930 to the present / M.C. Ricklefs.

The Javanese -- one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world -- were once mostly "nominal Muslims", with pious believers a minority and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam's call for greater piety. Over the tumultuous period analyzed here -- from colonial rule through j...

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