The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, C.1910s-2010 (Second Enlarged Edition)

Nakamura, Mitsuo

ISBN 10: 981431191X / ISBN 13: 9789814311915

Published by Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2012

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• Title: The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, C.1910s-2010 (Second Enlarged Edition)
• Publisher: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 981431191X
• ISBN 13: 9789814311915
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Part One of 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. The author was one of the first scholars who had noted that there was continuing Islamization in Indonesia and predicted its progress in the future. Part Two is based on the author's three decades of follow-up visits to the Kotagede from the 1970s to 2010. During this period, the Muhammadiyah movement made enormous advancements, enough to to make the town known as a "Muhammadiyah town". On the national level, the Muhammadiyah has grown to be the second largest Islamic civil society organization (after the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama) in Indonesia, with millions of members and supporters. Yet, the wider environment for it has been altered greatly by urbanization, diversification and globalization. It is also facing unprecedented challenges arising from calls for democratization in the post-Soeharto era. The longitudinal study in this volume depicts the most recent dynamics of the Muhammadiyah movement in a local as well as transhitoric context.

About the Author

Mitsuo Nakamura is Professor Emeritus at Chiba University, Japan. After obtaining a PhD from Cornell University, he was engaged in teaching and research at various institutions including University of Adelaide, University of Indonesia, The Australian National University, Harvard University, and Chiba University until his retirement from the latter in 1999.