Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812304728)

This book presents a genealogy of the social networks and power struggles of the major influential group of Indonesian-educated Muslims called "intelligentsia". In this effort, the longue durée approach is combined with an interactive, inter-disciplinary and inter-textual method to better understand the various underlying impulses and interactions contributing to continuity and change in the long-term development of the Muslim intelligentsia and its relation to power. In doing so, this book provides a major and important contribution to the study of the social history of contemporary Indonesia a plausible claim to being the first of its kind.

Author: Yudi Latif
ISBN-10: 981230472X
ISBN-13: 9789812304728
Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2008
Pages: 572
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d