Islam in Indonesia: Modernism, Radicalism, and the Middle East Dimension FROM THE PUBLISHER
Much of the media attention given after 9/11 and the Bali bombings of October 2002 to manifestations of radical Islam in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim community in the world, have been limited to current affairs. This book provides a broader perspective about contemporary Islam in Indonesia through discussion of two outstanding streams of thought and movements which clearly illustrate the significant contemporary influence of the Middle East on the Indonesian archipelago in an Islamic context - Islamic modernism and radical Islamic fundamentalism.
SYNOPSIS
Although Indonesia is home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Islam in Indonesia is often treated as a mere derivative of the Middle East. In contrast, Eliraz (Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement Institute of Peace, The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) stresses the uniqueness of its "Islamic space" in his case studies of Islamic modernism in the first decades of the 20th century and the more recent growth of radical Islamic fundamentalism. He situates his discussion in terms of how Middle East roots become contextualized in the Malay-Indonesian world. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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