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Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book
argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism
heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning
author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo,
where some Southeast Asians were drawn to both reformism and
nationalism. After demonstrating the close linkage between Cairene
ideology and Indonesian nationalism, Laffan shows how developments
in the Middle East continued to play a role in shaping Islamic
politics in colonial Indonesia.
This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The author contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn to both reformism and nationalism. After demonstrating the close linkage between Cairene ideology and Indonesian nationalism, Laffan shows how developments in the Middle East continued to play a role in shaping Islamic politics in colonial Indonesia. eBook available with sample pages: 0203222571
An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in
1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles,
enslaved people, and even the men tasked with supervising his
detention. Nineteenth-century colonial chroniclers invent the
legend of the "loyal Malay" warrior, whose anger can be tamed
through the "mildness" of British rule. A Tunisian-born teacher who
arrived in Java from Istanbul in the early twentieth century
becomes an enterprising Arabic-language journalist caught between
competing nationalisms. Telling these stories and many more,
Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two
centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and
future nation-states around the Indian Ocean world. Under Empire
traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with
Western, Islamic, and pan-Asian imperial formations to consider the
possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age. It ranges from the
dying era of the trading companies in the late eighteenth century
through the period of Dutch and British colonial rule up to the
rise of nationalist and cosmopolitan movements for social reform in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Laffan emphasizes how
Indian Ocean Muslims by turns asserted loyalty to colonial states
in pursuit of a measure of religious freedom or looked to the
Ottoman Empire or Egypt in search of spiritual unity. Bringing the
history of Southeast Asian Islam to African and South Asian shores,
Under Empire is an expansive and inventive account of Muslim
communal belonging on the world stage.
An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in
1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles,
enslaved people, and even the men tasked with supervising his
detention. Nineteenth-century colonial chroniclers invent the
legend of the "loyal Malay" warrior, whose anger can be tamed
through the "mildness" of British rule. A Tunisian-born teacher who
arrived in Java from Istanbul in the early twentieth century
becomes an enterprising Arabic-language journalist caught between
competing nationalisms. Telling these stories and many more,
Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two
centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and
future nation-states around the Indian Ocean world. Under Empire
traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with
Western, Islamic, and pan-Asian imperial formations to consider the
possibilities for Muslims in an imperial age. It ranges from the
dying era of the trading companies in the late eighteenth century
through the period of Dutch and British colonial rule up to the
rise of nationalist and cosmopolitan movements for social reform in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Laffan emphasizes how
Indian Ocean Muslims by turns asserted loyalty to colonial states
in pursuit of a measure of religious freedom or looked to the
Ottoman Empire or Egypt in search of spiritual unity. Bringing the
history of Southeast Asian Islam to African and South Asian shores,
Under Empire is an expansive and inventive account of Muslim
communal belonging on the world stage.
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