Islam and Colonialism - by Muhamad Ali (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>It is commonly held that European colonization and the efforts to modernize Muslim lands challenged Islam and undermined local custom, and that Islamization was generally opposed to European ideas and technologies and rejected local beliefs and practices. While colonial historiographies tend to focus on the influence of European actors, Muslim nationalist and postcolonial scholars emphasize Muslim and native agencies. In the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya, however, the ideas and actions associated with the concept of modernity were formed as an outcome of the interplay between Islamic reform and European colonialism. In this book, the author offers a comparative and cross-cultural history of Islamic reform and European colonialism as both dependent and independent factors in shaping the multiple ways of becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century. In formulating and advancing their respective projects of organizational, political, legal, and educational reform, Muslim reformers and European colonial scholars and administrators often differed, but they were not always antagonistic. They sometimes worked in tandem in order to achieve common ends. The colonialists did not necessarily oppose Islam and local customs, and Islamic reformers did not always resist Western colonial rule and the processes of modernization and localization.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Through its critical approach to the interplay of Islamic religious reform and dynamics of both British and Dutch colonialism, this work of comparative history opens up illuminating perspective on the rather different shapes that Islam and Muslim societies have taken in the neighbouring nation-states of modern Malaysia and Indonesia.' Michael Feener, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Explores the ways in which Islam and European colonialism shaped modernity in the Indo-Malay world 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, and that Western modernity was not 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. Key Features - Shows how Asian Muslims and European Christians developed modern approaches to politics, law and education which formed the basis for governance and civil society in the independent nations of Indonesia and Malaysia - Adds to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Islam and the West - Demonstrates that colonial-Islamic relations were less confrontational, both conceptually and institutionally, than has been previously believed - Uses comparative history to emphasise common and parallel features between diverse forces for change Muhamad Ali is Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. Cover image: Ontvangst te Wadjo ter Gelegenheid van Idoel Fitri, c.1938 (c) Leiden University Library, KITLV, Image code 41626 Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0920-9 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Through its critical approach to the interplay of Islamic religious reform and dynamics of both British and Dutch colonialism, this work of comparative history opens up illuminating perspective on the rather different shapes that Islam and Muslim societies have taken in the neighbouring<br>nation-states of modern Malaysia and Indonesia. -- Michael Feener, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore<p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Muhamad Ali is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published articles in several refereed journals including the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences and Indonesia and the Malay World.<p>
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