Alternative education or teaching radicalism? New literature on Islamic education in Southeast Asia

This review article focuses on three recent publications on Islamic education in Southeast Asia. While two are monographs on South Thailand and Myanmar/ Burma, one is a collection of essays on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Thailand, Cambodia, and the Southern Philippines. All works highlight local, regional and international educational networks, as well as their connections to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Based chiefly on first-hand fieldwork, the works deliver an up-to-date and detailed picture of current discussions and developments regarding Islamic education in Southeast Asia. Key words Education ; Islam ; Southeast Asia ; Indonesia ; Malaysia ; Thailand ; Myanma

Manfred Hutter (ed.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien: Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2008, [= Religionswissenschaft 15], ISBN 978-3-631-57500-0, 253 pages [Rezension]

Review of the edited volume: Manfred Hutter (ed.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2008, [= Religionswissenschaft 15], ISBN 978-3-631-57500-0, 253 pagesBuchbesprechung: Manfred Hutter (ed.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2008, [= Religionswissenschaft 15], ISBN 978-3-631-57500-0, 253 page

Searching for seeds to rest in libraries : European collecting habits towards Malay books and manuscripts in the nineteenth century

European scholars, colonial administrators, missionaries, bibliophiles and others were the main collectors of Malay books in the nineteenth century, both in manuscript or printed form. Among these persons were many well-known names in the field of Malay literature and culture like Raffles, Marsden, Crawfurd, Klinkert, van der Tuuk, von Dewall, Roorda, Favre, Maxwell, Overbeck, Wilkinson and Skeat, to name only a few. Their collections were often handed over to public libraries where they form an important part of the relevant Oriental or Southeast Asian manuscript collections. Therefore the knowledge of the intellectual culture of the Malay Peninsula and the Malay World in general depended very much on these manuscripts and printed books collected often by chance or in a rather unsystematic way. The collections reflect in a strong sense the interests of its administrative or philologist collectors: court histories, genealogies of aristocratic lineages, law collections (adat-istiadat as well as undangundang) or prose belles-lettres build a vast bulk of these collections, while Islamic religious texts and poetry forms popular in the 19th century (especially syair) are fairly underrepresented. Malay manuscripts and books located in religious institutions like mosques or pondok/pesantren schools have not been searched for; until today there are more or less no systematic studies of these collections. As in some statistics religious texts build about 20% of all existing Malay manuscripts, their neglect by Europeans scholars leads to a distorted view of the literary culture in the Malay language

The collection of 19th century printed Malay books of Emil Lüring

Emil Lüring was a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church based in Singapore, Ipoh and Penang, from 1889 to 1909. After his return to Germany he became a lecturer at the Methodist Training Seminary in Frankfurt. During his stay in Malaya, he kept close connections on leading European experts on Malay languages and literature, such as Wilkinson, Shellabear, Blagden and Skeat. He was able to obtaine an impressive collection of early printed Malay books which he either received from the American Mission Press or bought himself from local publishing houses or booksellers in Singapore and Riau. Many of these titles are today extremely rare and are listed her

Buchbesprechung: Manfred Hutter (Hrsg.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien (2008)

Review of the edited volume: Manfred Hutter (ed.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2008, [= Religionswissenschaft 15], ISBN 978-3-631-57500-0, 253 pagesBesprechung des Sammelbandes: Manfred Hutter (Hrsg.): Religionsinterne Kritik und religiöser Pluralismus im gegenwärtigen Südostasien Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2008, [= Religionswissenschaft 15], ISBN 978-3-631-57500-0, 253 Seite

Alternative Education or Teaching Radicalism? New Literature on Islamic Education in Southeast Asia

This review article focuses on three recent publications on Islamic education in Southeast Asia. While two are monographs on South Thailand and Myanmar/ Burma, one is a collection of essays on Indonesia, Malaysia, South Thailand, Cambodia, and the Southern Philippines. All works highlight local, regional and international educational networks, as well as their connections to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Based chiefly on first-hand fieldwork, the works deliver an up-to-date and detailed picture of current discussions and developments regarding Islamic education in Southeast Asia.Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Malaysia; Thailand; Myanmar; Islam; religion; education

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