Islamic nationhood and colonial Indonesia : the umma below the winds /

This book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Series:	SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East.
Subjects:	Nationalism > Indonesia > History. Islam and politics > Indonesia > History. Ummah (Islam) > Indonesia > History. Southeast Asians > Saudi Arabia > Hejaz > History. Southeast Asians > Egypt > Cairo > History. Indonesia > Politics and government > 1798-1942. Electronic books.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

1. An ecumene in 'The lands below the winds'
2. Arab priests and pliant pilgrims
3. The Hijazi experience and direct colonial visions of the heart of the ecumene
4. Colonizing Islam and the Western-oriented project of Indies nationhood
5. Reorientation among the Jawa of Mecca
6. The Jawa and Cairo
7. Islamic voices from Singapore, Java, and Sumatra
8. Towards an indigenous and Islamic Indonesia
9. Indonesia visualized as a fractured umma below the winds
10. From the Meccan discourse of a Jawi ecumene to the Cairene discourse of an Indonesian homeland.

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