By R. Michael Feener

Indonesia has been domestic to a couple of the main vivid and complicated advancements in smooth Islamic concept wherever on this planet. however little is understood or understood approximately those advancements open air South East Asia. via contemplating the paintings of the best Indonesian thinkers of the 20 th century, Michael Feener, an highbrow authority within the sector, deals a cogent critique of this various and wide literature and sheds mild at the modern debates and the dynamics of Islamic reform. The 2007 ebook highlights the openness to, and artistic manipulation of, various strands of foreign idea that experience come to outline Islamic intellectualism in glossy Indonesia. this can be an obtainable and interpretive assessment of the spiritual and social considered the world's greatest Muslim majority state. As such it will likely be learn by means of students of Islamic legislations and society, South East Asian reviews and comparative legislation and jurisprudence.

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