...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...

...Robert W. Hefner Political Islam in Southeast Asia . By Gordon P. Means . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner , 2009 . xi , 444 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $32.00 (paper). Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand . By Duncan McCargo . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 ©...

...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...

...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...

...James M. Edmonds Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru . By James Bourk Hoesterey . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2015 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9780804795111 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... announced that Britain's colonial policy “will ensure completely the interests of Islam.” Fadl ultimately came to understand political sovereignty and sayyid sovereignty as a binary that could be mediated, even overcome, by what Jacob calls the “unity of life,” a controversial idea (because of its...

...Rachel Rinaldo Over the past few decades, Malaysia's economy and infrastructure have developed rapidly, contributing to the growth of a broad middle class. Yet the political system has stagnated, and the state competes with Islamists to implement an agenda of Islamization, particularly...

... provide readers with a view of Islam and Muslims in Pakistan animated by a riveting mixture of aspiration, contradiction, and tragedy. This review essay engages some of the central arguments, conceptual interventions, and problems found in these two works to highlight their contribution to the study...

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

...Hans Martin Krämer Abstract Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six...

... that Ricci might have been better served by framing the book more boldly as a challenge to Pollock's largely binary division of cosmopolitan and vernacular. In the end, the conclusion I drew from Ricci's work—one that she states in various ways, but not as her central conclusion—is that Islamic literature...

...G. Carter Bentley BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 649 Revolt in Mindanao: The Rise of Islam in Philippine Politics. By T. J. S. GEORGE. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1980. v, 294 pp. Bibliography, Index, Maps. $21. It is easy to see why the revolt of southern Philippine Muslims appealed to T...

..., complex, and well-integrated into the political perspectives of the linguistic regions in which they reside. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 1 The pre-Independence period has been treated extensively by: Ahmad A. , Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan...

...Jean Taylor The Dynamics of Indonesian History . Edited by Haryati Soebadio and Carine A. du Marchie Sarvaas . Amsterdam : North-Holland , 1978 . xvi, 395 pp. Illustrations, Tables. N.p. The Development of Indonesian Society: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day . Edited...