Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This book is valuable for its exposition of a characteristically modernist Muslim perspective on Indonesia's future.Its writer, Ahmad Syafii Maarif (b.West Sumatra 1935), finds models for that future in the history of Islamic modernism in the country, and especially in the example of the Masyumi party.This party was a strong player in Indonesian politics until 1960, when it was broken apart by Sukarno, who was at that time intent on reducing the legislative power of the
Source: Southeast Asian Studies
Author: Lisa Arensen
Institutions: Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Institute of Asian Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7133528496