Session 1: The Arrival and Appeal of Islam in Southeast Asia Islamic Conversion as Depicted in Indigenous Texts
Session 2: Islam under Colonialism Global Islam, Modernity and the Extremist Challenge
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Reading:
The Arrival and Appeal of Islam in Southeast Asia
Anna Gade and R. Michael Feener, “Muslim Thought and Practice in Contemporary Indonesia,” Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004 (pp183-215)
Islamic Conversion as Depicted in Indigenous Texts
Russell Jones. “Ten Conversion Myths from Indonesia,” Conversion to Islam, Nehemia Levtzion (ed.), New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979 (pp. 129-158)
Islam under Colonialism
Reynaldo Ileto, “Religion and Anti-Colonial Movements,” The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Nicholas Tarling (ed.) II:1, Cambridge University Press, 1992 (pp193-240)
Global Islam, Modernity and the Extremist Challenge
R. Michael Feener, Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004 (pp1-39)
Michael Feener assistant professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Riverside, completed his PhD in Islamic Studies from Boston University (1999), and has pursued additional studies at Harvard, Cornell, the University of Chicago, and the University of Washington, as well as at various institutions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. His published articles cover a broad range of materials from Sufi hagiography to jurisprudence, however they all share a central concern with the impact of Western academic scholarship on the internal development of religious traditions. He is currently working on a monograph tracing the development of Muslim legal thought in twentieth century Indonesia, as well as a study of Arabic biographical texts as sources for the history of Islam in Southeast Asia.
