Azra: Origins of Islamic Reform (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications) by Azyumardi Azra

by Azyumardi Azra

Islamic renewal and reformism is an ongoing process that is commonly thought to have started only in the twentieth century. Professor Azra's meticulous study, using sources from the Middle East itself, shows how scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were reconstructing the intellectual and socio-moral foundation of Muslim societies. Drawing on Arabic biographic dictionaries that have never before been analyzed or used as research materials, Professor Azra illuminates a previously inaccessible period of history to show the development of the Middle Eastern heritage in the Indonesian archipelago. The reader can trace the formation and expression of Indonesian Islam and the adaptation of the Arabic intellectualism into recognizably Indonesian idioms. For the first time we have a description of the actual process of localization, a process of interest to historians, anthropologists, and sociologists, and also a subject of intense contemporary relevance.

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About the author

Prof. Dr. Azyumardi Azra, MA, CBE adalah akademisi Muslim asal Indonesia. Azyumardi terpilih sebagai Rektor UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta pada 1998 dan mengakhirinya pada 2006. Pada tahun 2010, dia memperoleh titel Commander of the Order of British Empire, sebuah gelar kehormatan dari Kerajaan Inggris.