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- Wellfelt, Emilie, 1965-, et al.
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Islam in Aru, Indonesia : Oral traditions and Islamisation processes from the early modern period to the present
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Ingår i: Indonesia and the Malay World. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1363-9811 .- 1469-8382. ; 47:138, s. 160-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The coming of Islam in eastern Indonesia is generally assigned to the activities of Muslim traders from the late 15th century onwards. This assumption is an over-simplification, especially in areas outside the main trade centres. In the Aru islands, Islam was introduced by the mid 17th century. We argue that Islamisation in Aru was initially a matter of internal considerations, rather than trade. We present oral traditions about the expansion of Islam as seen from two locations: Ujir, the historical Muslim centre in Aru on the west coast, and Benjuring, a former stronghold of local ancestral beliefs in the east. The oral sources are juxtaposed with European accounts of the 17th century when Muslim and Protestant centres first developed in Aru. The coming of Islam forced people to either convert or leave for non-Muslim areas. By late colonial times (early 20th century), both Islam and the Protestant church had reached remote villages. The most recent wave of conversions in Aru to state-approved world religions took place in the 1970s. In the last 30 years, the population in Aru has grown, especially in the regency capital Dobo. While Muslims used to be a small minority in Aru with their main centre on Ujir island, the point of gravity has shifted to Dobo, a fast-growing town with a large influx of mostly Muslims from other parts of Indonesia. Islamisation is still ongoing in Aru and the character of Islam is changing.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-, et al.
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Tamalola : Transregional connectivities, Islam, and anti-colonialism on an Indonesian island
- 2019
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Ingår i: Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia. - : Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia. - 1411-2272 .- 2407-6899. ; 20:3, s. 430-456
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study focuses on a set of events in the Aru Islands, Maluku, in the late eighteenth century which are documented in some detail by Dutch records. A violent rebellion with Muslim and anti-European overtones baffled the Dutch colonialists (VOC) and led to a series of humiliations for the Company on Aru, before eventually being subdued. As one of the main catalysts of the conflict stands the chief Tamalola from the Muslim island Ujir. Interestingly, this persons also a central figure in local traditions from Ujir. Moreover, his story connects with wider cultural and economic networks in eastern Indonesia. Thus the article asks how the imprints of the Tamalola figure in textual and non-textual sources can add to our knowledge of how communities of Eastern Indonesia ordered their lives outside colonial control.
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