Located on the eastern periphery of the historical Muslim world, as
a political entity Indonesia is barely a century old. Yet with
close to a quarter of a billion followers of Islam it is now the
largest and most populous Muslim country in the world. As the
greatest political power in Southeast Asia, and a growing player on
the world scene, Indonesia presents itself as a bridge country
between Asia, the wider Muslim world and the West. In this survey
Carool Kersten presents the Islamisation of Indonesia from the
first evidence of the acceptance of Islam by indigenous peoples in
the late thirteenth century until the present day. He provides
comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in
Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian
Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic
world, the religion's role as a means of resistance and tool for
nation building, and postcolonial attempts to forge an 'Indonesian
Islam'.
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