Open AccessSultans, Shamans & Saints
Author(s) -
Carool Kersten
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american journal of islam and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-3741
pISSN - 2690-3733
DOI - 10.35632/ajis.v26i3.1385
Subject(s) - islam , independence (probability theory) , southeast asia , politics , history , political science , law , ancient history , archaeology , statistics , mathematics
Few people in North American academia are more knowledgeable aboutIslam in Southeast Asia, and especially in Indonesia, than Howard Federspiel.The forte of his own research contributions lays not so much in innovativeanalyses as in presenting comprehensive and useful overviews forspecialists and novice students alike. As a political scientist, he made hisname with his study of Indonesia’s Persatuan Islam (PERSIS), a modernistIslamic organization active from the 1920s until the 1950s – the critical timeframe during which the Dutch colony gained its independence. This was followedby further contributions to the country’s contemporary intellectualhistory. With Sultans, Shamans & Saints, Federspiel has now tried his handat producing a general overview of Islam in Southeast Asia ...