Michael Laffan

The Sinn Féin Party, 19161923

The Resurrection of Ireland

Agama Islam tidak dilahirkan di Indonesia, namun justru negara inilah yang memiliki penduduk muslim dengan jumlah terbesar di dunia. Bagaimanakah cara agama ini masuk dan berkembang di antara suku dan budaya yang beragam di nusantara? Fondasi pertanyaan ini kemudian menggerakkan Michael Laffan, Profesor Sejarah di Universitas Princenton, untuk meneliti proses tumbuh kembangnya Islam di Indonesia yang memiliki corak dan ciri khusus. Dari aneka ragam sumberdaya, Laffan mereka ulang sejarah interaksi dan diskusi ihwal Islam di Asia Tenggara, khususnya Indonesia. Islam di Indonesia kerap digambarkan bersifat moderat berkat peran yang dimainkan Sufisme mistis dalam membentuk pelbagai tradisinya. Menurut para pengamat Barat—mulai dari para administrator kolonial, para cendekiawan orientalis Belanda, hingga para antropolog modern seperti Clifford Geertz—penafsiran Islam yang damai ala Indonesia terus-menerus mendapat ancaman dari luar oleh tradisi-tradisi Islam yang lebih keras dan intoleran. Sejarah Islam Nusantara menawarkan sebuah penilaian yang lebih berimbang terhadap sejarah intelektual dan kultural Indonesia. Michael Laffan menyusuri bagaimana citra populer mengenai Islam Indonesia dibentuk oleh berbagai perjumpaan antara para cendekiawan kolonial Belanda dan para pemikir Islam reformis. Tak berhenti sampai di situ, Laffan juga menyuguhkan peran-peran tradisi Arab, Cina, India, dan Eropa yang telah saling berinteraksi sejak awal masuknya Islam. Hasil perkawinan lintas budaya dan intelektualitas inilah yang kemudian melahirkan Islam Nusantara. "Sejarah Islam Nusantara merupakan kontribusi keilmuan yang mengesankan dan penting, mengandung informasi berlimpah dan sudut pandang kritis bagi para cendekiawan dan peneliti yang sebidang.” —Christina Sunardi, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences “Terlepas dari gaya berapi-api yang kadang jenaka, buku ini padat dan dapat menjadi bahan diskusi.... Menarik." —Anthony H. Johns, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies "Michael F. Laffan menulis buku yang gembur, sangat informatif, dan sangat inspiratif. Semua orang yang ingin menekuni Islam di Indonesia dan Orientalisme Belanda harus membacanya." —Stephan Conermann, Sehepunkte "Buku ini merupakan sumbangsih besar bagi Islam di Indonesia.” —Barbara Watson Andaya, co-writer A History of Malaysia [Mizan, Bentang Pustaka, Bunyan, Islam, Sejarah, Budaya, Indonesia]

Sejarah Islam di Nusantara

Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz--Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more violent, intolerant Islamic traditions that were originally imposed by conquering Arab armies. The Makings of Indonesian Islam challenges this widely accepted narrative, offering a more balanced assessment of the intellectual and cultural history of the most populous Muslim nation on Earth. Michael Laffan traces how the popular image of Indonesian Islam was shaped by encounters between colonial Dutch scholars and reformist Islamic thinkers. He shows how Dutch religious preoccupations sometimes echoed Muslim concerns about the relationship between faith and the state, and how Dutch-Islamic discourse throughout the long centuries of European colonialism helped give rise to Indonesia's distinctive national and religious culture. The Makings of Indonesian Islam presents Islamic and colonial history as an integrated whole, revealing the ways our understanding of Indonesian Islam, both past and present, came to be.

Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past

The Makings of Indonesian Islam

Max Weiss

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past. From the eighteenth-century Peruvian highlands and the California borderlands to the urban cityscapes of contemporary Russia and India, this book collectively explores the wide range of causes, experiences, and explanations of this protean emotion. The volume contributes to the thriving literature on the history of emotions and destabilizes narratives that have often understood fear in very specific linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings. Rather, by using a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, the book situates fear in more global terms, breaks new ground in the historical and cultural analysis of emotions, and sets out a new agenda for further research. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Alexander Etkind, Lisbeth Haas, Andreas Killen, David Lederer, Melani McAlister, Ronald Schechter, Marla Stone, Ravi Sundaram, and Charles Walker.

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