TY  - BOOK
TI  - Islam and colonialism: becoming modern in Indonesia and Malaya 
SN  - 9781474409209
U1  - 306.6109598 23A
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
N2  - 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, nor that Western modernity was 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
ER  -