It is hard to imagine a more comprehensive, well-written introduction to a key but neglected subject. The book's forty-eight selections are drawn from materials published between the 1880s and the 1980s, and almost without exception the compilers selected major pieces to excerpt. Included are representative writings of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Harry J. Benda, Deliar Noer, Clifford Geertz, and Raymond Firth. Most chapters deal with the history and contemporary issues of Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia, but there are also quick glances at Islam in the Philippines and Thailand, and even in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia
Compiled by Ahmad Ibrahim, Sharon Siddique, and Yasmin Hussain. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985. 408 pp. $32 ($19.50, paper)
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes
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https://www.danielpipes.org/11174/readings-on-islam-in-southeast-asia
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