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The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, c.1910s-2010 2 Revised edition
Mitsuo Nakamura
The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, c.1910s-2010 2 Revised edition
Mitsuo Nakamura
This book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970-72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity.
476 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 30, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9789814311915 |
Publishers | ISEAS |
Pages | 429 |
Dimensions | 167 × 234 × 28 mm · 700 g |
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