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Hamka's Great Story

A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Hamka’s Great Story presents Indonesia through the eyes of an impassioned, popular thinker who believed that Indonesians and Muslims everywhere should embrace the thrilling promises of modern life, and navigate its dangers, with Islam as their compass.Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah) was born when Indonesia was still a Dutch colony and came of age as the nation itself was emerging through tumultuous periods of Japanese occupation, revolution, and early independence. He became a prominent author and controversial public figure. In his lifetime of prodigious writing, Hamka advanced Islam as a liberating, enlightened, and hopeful body of beliefs around which the new nation could form and prosper. He embraced science, human agency, social justice, and democracy, arguing that these modern concepts comported with Islam’s true teachings. Hamka unfolded this big idea—his Great Story—decade by decade in a vast outpouring of writing that included novels and poems and chatty newspaper columns, biographies, memoires, and histories, and lengthy studies of theology including a thirty-volume commentary on the Holy Qur’an. In introducing this influential figure and his ideas to a wider audience, this sweeping biography also illustrates a profound global process: how public debates about religion are shaping national societies in the postcolonial world.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-06-30
Mått154 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299308407

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James R. Rush is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910, The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia, and numerous biographical essays about contemporary Asian activists, humanitarians, and public intellectuals in The Ramon Magsaysay Awards book series and website.

“Through Hamka’s lens, Rush has opened up to foreign scholars and students of Indonesia how many Indonesians view the world.”—Asian Studies Review“An important contribution to the study of—and also a celebration of the importance of—one of the greatest thinkers in Indonesia's modern history. The book includes a deep examination of Hamka's writings, and incorporates Rush's interviews with Hamka's close associates. It serves as a critique of scholars who fail to see the heterogeneity of the modernist Islamic movement in Indonesia.”—Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia"This is an insightful biography of Hamka, whose life was devoted to the implementation of a reformist vision of Islam for modern Indonesia. The book emphasizes the public rather than the private man although there are also revealing glimpses into his personal affairs. It is a strong point of Rush’s narrative that he does not feel the need to spell out the obvious and lets the reader fill aspects of the argument for himself or herself." — Anthropos, 113 (2018)