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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 899–900.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Mark R. Woodward Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam and Modernity in Indonesia . Edited by Greg Barton and Greg Fealy . Clayton, Australia : Monash Asia Institute , 1996 . xvii, 293 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 512–513.
Published: 01 May 2005
...M. F. Laffan The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern “Ulamā” in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . By Azyumardi Azra . Asian Studies Association of Australia Publication Series. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin; Honolulu...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 4. Percentage of seats won by Masyumi and the Nahdlatul Ulama in the 1957 election, East Java. More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 6. Percentage change in population versus political support for the Nahdlatul Ulama. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1054–1055.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 This is an important work that deserves a wide readership. Firstly, it provides new insights into the freedom movement struggle in the United Provinces (UP), especially with respect to the press and public opinion and the role of Deobandi ulama . Secondly, leading on from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 400.
Published: 01 February 1977
..., I shall comment only on two of the more important aspects of his discussion: his interpretation of my underlying argument, and the more general question of the role of the Mappilla 'ulama in the nineteenth-century outbreaks. Insofar as he raises questions about the pre-British period, I must refer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 703–705.
Published: 01 May 1983
.... With the publication of this excellent book, studies in English of the 'ulama in South Asia the scholars, teachers, and exemplars of the law and sciences of Islam come of age. True, Aziz Ahmad, Peter Hardy, and others have written instructively and at some length about Muslim thought and Muslim intellectuals...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 828–829.
Published: 01 August 1997
... a Mahdi an Islamic revolutionary and the most preeminent and original philosopher of the twentieth century. For his critics and they, too, are numerous, varying from politicians to ideologues and ulama he was a fundamentalist, a spoiler, and an extremist of a sectarian kind. To several nonpartisan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1142–1143.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of the Barelwi movement among the ulama of the Indian subcontinent, a scholarly study of Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his followers is long overdue. The importance of the Barelwis, who styled themselves "Ahl-e-Sunnat wa Jama'at, or people of the [Prophet's] way and the majority community" (p. 7), lay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 22 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 November 1962
... in historical continuity, an alternative theory developed positing the spiritual unity of the Muslim community and its infallibility when interpretations had the general agreement (consensus) of the jurists, thereby making the ulama the custodians of the law. Actually both theories accept the unity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 February 1977
..., I shall comment only on two of the more important aspects of his discussion: his interpretation of my underlying argument, and the more general question of the role of the Mappilla 'ulama in the nineteenth-century outbreaks. Insofar as he raises questions about the pre-British period, I must refer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (3): 740–741.
Published: 01 May 1970
... and Muslims, and it is through the control over one's inner life that the good society will automatically develop, or at least this was the position of the Islamic scholars, the ulamas. The promised result was the creation of social relations not disrupted by the passions that divide men and a state...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 246–248.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of tauhid (Oneness of God), which resulted in friction with other parties, particularly the government. Perhaps the main strength of the book, besides its vivid details, is how the formation of Hamka as a great ulama and literary lion are illustrated convincingly. Undoubtedly, Rush must have worked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 406–407.
Published: 01 May 1988
... ulama. These new leaders are acting on an affirmative vision of their future in a war they cannot win militarily. In waging jihad, the ulama preach revival of the shariat as an ethical and spiritual basis for popular Afghan life. This is a notable turnabout, for only a generation ago their influence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 462–463.
Published: 01 February 1985
..., and eventually become thieves. The complaint of the author is not that money necessarily leads to evil, but that men forget their ritual duties away from home and that money is not spent for domestic purposes but is evilly squandered. The Hakayat Teungku di Meuke' is the story of a struggle between an ulama...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 February 1985
... is not spent for domestic purposes but is evilly squandered. The Hakayat Teungku di Meuke' is the story of a struggle between an ulama (religious scholar) on the West Coast and a local noble, a follower of the Dutch during the Acehnese War. It tells how the ulama built a fort upstream and disrupted trade...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 565–567.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... In Malaysia, the ulama s (Muslim teachers and scholars) have traditionally had a monopoly on Muslim religious knowledge, and in recent years, as Basarudin explains, many have been coopted into the service of the state, while others have sided with the Islamist opposition. Most ulama s have been very hostile...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 February 2014
... now formed a community in Mecca where they discussed the relevant issues of their day, debated scholarship, exchanged and shared texts, and competed for prestige within a small circle of religious scholars known as ‘ulamā’ (Azra 2004 , 112, 120; Snouck Hurgronje 1931 , 245). 8 It is not clear...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 567–568.
Published: 01 August 1988
... the Muslim societies in Asia and Africa, and peripherally in Europe. Lapidus stresses that Islam is not homogeneous but demonstrates a diversity both of attitudes toward the relation of political and religious institutions, and of the roles of ulama, Sufi brotherhoods, and schools of law. This diverse...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 673–674.
Published: 01 May 1980
... Muslim jurists to designate those customs and rules in the various parts of the Muslim world that were not elements of Islamic law. The ulama distinguished between those adat (adat jahiliya) which were in flagrant contradiction to Islamic law and, through a series of gradations, those adat innocuous...