Persatuan Islam Islamic Reform in Twentieth Century Indonesia (Equinox) PERSATUAN ISLAM ISLAMIC REFORM IN TWENTIETH CENTURY INDONESIA (EQUINOX) By Federspiel, Howard M. ( Author )Oct-14-2009 Paperback

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Indonesia in Transition: Muslim Intellectuals and National Development

(For the past quarter of a century the growing importance ...)

For the past quarter of a century the growing importance of Islam has made itself felt on the international world. It is a development that has centered primarily on the revitalization of religious teachings on the faithful themselves, but it has had profound repercussions in the political realm, particularly in Third World nations where most Muslims live. Here resurgent Islamic values are challenging many of the Western-trained and Western-influenced elites that rule those countries as to the proper laws, policies and national directions that such nations should have. In this study of Indonesia, an influential group of Muslim intellectuals has come to national prominence and put forward their thinking regarding the important issues of social direction, economic goals and political participation. Supportive of government economic-development policy, these intellectuals have called for fundamental reform concerning the moral structure that should undergird Indonesian nationalism. At the same time these intellectuals call for reform of the Muslim community itself, so that its institutions and message is presented in terms that reflect the modernizing context of Indonesia. Tolerated and even promoted by the Western-oriented Indonesian government, this group of Muslim intellectuals presents a far different attitude toward the implementation of Islamic values than exists in several other countries where severe disputes, and even bloodshed, have marked the efforts of Muslims to transform their values into political reality. The author, Dr. Federspiel, was trained at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and has been a close observer of Islam in its Southeast Asian setting.

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Persatuan Islam Islamic Reform in Twentieth Century Indonesia

(The major Islamic organizations that have appeared in Ind...)

The major Islamic organizations that have appeared in Indonesia in the twentieth century-Sarekat Islam, Muhammadijah, Nahdlatul Ulama and Masjumi-have all been representatives of the group that emphasizes traditional Middle Eastern Islamic beliefs and practices. All have been concerned with the primacy of Islamic law, even though their concepts of just what constituted that law were vague and different from one another. All have maintained that religious values are so important that the state should be responsible for assuring the adoption of such values throughout Indonesian society, although again there has been no common concept of what these values actually are or just what the state was to do about them. All have been convinced that the traditional Islamic values are correct and that all of Indonesian society should come to accept this premise, but there has been a wide variety of interpretations as to just how these traditional values should be implemented in contemporary Indonesian life. The value of the Persatuan Islam as a topic for scholarly research lies not in its organization, for it was small and loosely knit, nor does it lie in its participation in Indonesian political life over the past forty-five years, for its activity was incidental and peripheral to the mainstream of political developments. Although its role in religious education made some impact on Indonesian Muslims, it has been far less influential than several other organizations. In the same manner, its press has been influential at times but has never attained the stature and readership among Indonesians accorded the publications of several other Muslim organizations. Rather, the Persatuan Islam is important because it has attempted to define for Indonesian society just what it is that constitutes Islam, what the basic principles of that religion are, and what constitutes proper religious behavior for Muslims. In this presentation, the Persatuan Islam has avoided vague concepts and generalizations-somewhat unusual in Indonesia-and has dealt with the details and substance of religious behavior in Indonesia. Its members have propounded very definite views toward traditional Indonesian culture, toward developments occurring in the twentieth century, toward "Western" culture and toward traditional Muslim religious thought and practices.

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(A Dictionary of Indonesian Islam) Author: Howard M. Federspiel published on (April, 1995)

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Dictionary of Indonesian Islam: Mis Sea#94 (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)

( Drawing from an extensive list of writings about Indone...)

Drawing from an extensive list of writings about Indonesian Islam that have appeared over the past fifteen years, Federspiel defines approximately 1,800 terms, phrases, historical figures, religious books, and place names that relate to Islam and gives their Arabic sources. This dictionary will be indispensable to English–speaking students and researchers working in Indonesian or Southeast Asian studies. It will also be useful for scholars working in Bahasa Indonesian, reading texts written about Islam by Indonesian Muslims, as well as for Southeast Asia area scholars generally who are using sources in Western languages.

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Muslim Intellectuals and National Development in Indonesia

(In this study of Indonesia, an influential group of Musli...)

In this study of Indonesia, an influential group of Muslim intellectuals has come to national prominence and put forward their thinking regarding the important issues of social direction, economic goals and political participation. Supportive of government economic-development policy, these intellectuals have called for fundamental reform concerning the moral structure that should undergird Indonesian nationalism. At the same time these intellectuals call for reform of the Muslim community itself, so that its institutions and message is presented in terms that reflect the modernizing context of Indonesia.

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The Usage of Traditions of the Prophet in Contemporary Indonesia (Monographs in Southeast Asian studies)

(This book presents a study of the Traditions of the Proph...)

This book presents a study of the Traditions of the Prophet in Indonesian Muslim contemporary society. The scholarly field of Traditions study is not well known by observers of Indonesian Islam and has a limited following among Indonesian Muslims themselves. Some time is spent introducing concepts, terms and sources that apply to the area of Traditions. In addition to the science of Traditions investigation, this study discusses the translations of various collectors, the role of Traditions as the raw material for Muslim jurisprudence, and the use of Traditions studies in the various Muslim school systems in Indonesia. Howard Federspiel's book provides an important contribution to the scholarship in this field.

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