Islam and Colonialism : Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya

Ali, Muhamad

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399565110
• DDC分類 959.5103

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Making Islam Modern
1. Organising Da'wah and Spreading Reform
2. Colonising the Muslim East and Reinforcing Culture

Part II: Modernising Politics and Government
3. Building Siyasah and Reforming Sultanate
4. Controlling Politics and Bureaucratising Religion

Part III: Modernising Law
5. Integrating Shari'ah, Adat, and European Laws
6. Formalising Legal Plurality

Part IV: Modernising Education
7. Teaching Agama and the Secular
8. Secularising Education

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index