...William R. Roff Islam di Malaysia [Islam in Malaysik] . Edited by Khoo Kay Kim . Kuala Lumpur : Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia , 1979 . 238 pp. Plates, Notes. M$ 10.00. Lembaran Akhbar Melayu [Essays on Malay Newspapers] . Edited by Khoo Kay Kim . Kuala Lumpur : Persatuan Sejarah...

...Sanjib Baruah Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity, and Leadership in South Asia . By Akbar S. Ahmed . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 1986 . xii , 264 pp. $25.00. Islam and the State in the World Today . Edited by Olivier Carré . New Delhi : Manohar , 1987 . xxx , 280 pp...

...Frederick Mathewson Denny Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway . By Akbar S. Ahmed . London : BBC Books , 1993 . 224 pp. 31 color plates. £16.99; $24.95 (cloth). Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World . Hugh Purcell, Executive Producer, Akbar Ahmed...

...Hiroko H. Roe Rebellion Under the Banner of Islam: The Darul Islam in Indonesia . By C. Van Dijk . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 94), 1981 . x, 473 pp. Preface, Note on the Spelling of Indonesian Names and Terms...

... these views but fail to engage the reader in any probing examination of them. One finds no discussion of problems present in Aurobindo's thought; in other words, the book lacks critical discussion. JUNE O'CONNOR University of California, Riverside Islam in the Indian Subcontinent. By ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Islam et société en Asie du Sud / Islam and Society in South Asia . Edited by Marc Gaborieau . Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, no. 9. Paris : Collection Purusartha , 1986 . French and English text. 203 pp. 170 F. Copyright ©...

... insurgencies. In the last chapter prior to his conclusion, Means analyzes the statements, tactics, and organization of the militants. Their stated aims are “sketchy” (p. 152), and, to judge by the statements McCargo analyzes, their knowledge of and commitment to Islamic law are minimal. They appear to lack...

...Michael G. Peletz Makers of Contemporary Islam . By John L. Esposito and John O. Voll . New York : University Press , 2001 . 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Islam in a Globalizing World . By Thomas W. Simons Jr . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2003...

...Robert W. Hefner Islam and Ideology in the Emerging Indonesian State: The Persatuan Islam (PERSIS), 1923–1957 . By Howard M. Federspiel . Leiden : Brill , 2001 . xii, 365 pp. $114.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

...Raden Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo Abstract Until the arrival of the Europeans, sea traffic to the Indies was merely coastal. Sailing ships went from port to port along the coasts. As the Strait of Malacca was, of old, the gateway to the Indonesian Archipelago, it is no wonder that Islam...

... Islam, in 1912–1920 is explained by a series of generalities about the social conditions of the Indonesian people. The importance of religion is acknowledged as a focus for opposition to colonial rule during the phase between the self-defense of traditional, relatively isolated, societies and modern...

...A. M. Halpern The Crescent and the Rising Sun: Indonesian Islam under the Japanese Occupation, 1942–1945 . By Harry J. Benda . The Hague and Bandung : W. van Hoeve Ltd. , 1958 . xiv, 320 . Notes, Bibliography, Index. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961...

...John Alden Williams Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3 . By Kenneth Cragg . Edinburgh : University Press , 1965 . xiv, 255 , Notes, Bibliography, Index. $475. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 503 and the Five Precepts, add...

...Frederick S. Paxton Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam . By Patricia Crone . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . viii , 300 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 574 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES developed intellectual apparatus...

...M. N. Pearson Islam and the Trade of Asia. A Colloquium . Edited by D. S. Richards . Philadelphia : Bruno Cassirer Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania Press , 1970 . vi, 266 pp. Illustrations, $10.00. BOOK REVIEWS 383 a few of the problems confronting British judges who must...

... SIEGEL Cornell University H i n d u Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam. By ROBERT W . HEFNER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xii, 291 pp. Maps, Tables, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. $36.00. For scholars of Java, Indonesia, or Southeast Asia, the Tenggerese constitute a strategically...

...Ronald Provencher Malaysia: Tradition, Modernity, and Islam . By R. S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, Nations of Contemporary Asia , 1986 . xix, 201 pp. Illustrations, List of Special Terms and Concepts, List of Acronyms, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $28.00...

...Dru C. Gladney Abstract The study of islam in china has been strongly influenced by what Lila Abu-Lughod (1989:269) termed “zones of theory” in the general Western scholarship of Islam, in which studies of the Middle Eastern “core” have been privileged over Islam on the so-called periphery. Muslims...

... with the critique of Orientalism. It should be read by everyone who is interested in the history and politics of "Orientalist" knowledge, especially in South Asia. WILLIAM S. SAX University of Canterbury Islam and Indian Regions. Edited by A N N A LIBERA DALLAPICCOLA and S T E P H A N I E Z I N G E L - A V E...

...David Gilmartin; Tony K. Stewart The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 . By Richard M. Eaton . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . xvii, 359 pp. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 866 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...