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Islamic nationhood and colonial Indonesia : the umma below the winds / Michael Francis Laffan.

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This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage.

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Main Author: Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Series:SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East.
Subjects:
Nationalism > Indonesia > History.
Islam and politics > Indonesia > History.
Ummah (Islam) > Indonesia > History.
Southeast Asians > Saudi Arabia > Hejaz > History.
Southeast Asians > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Indonesia > Politics and government > 1798-1942.
Islam and politics.
Nationalism.
Politics and government.
Southeast Asians.
Ummah (Islam)
Egypt > Cairo.
Indonesia.
Saudi Arabia > Hejaz.
History.
Table of 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.

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