Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Hardcover dustjacket. xxvi, 391 pp. Southeast Asia Publication Series. - In this work Professor M. C. Ricklefs explores the nexus between religious belief and mundane behaviour in mid-eighteenth century Java - exploding widely accepted stereotypes about the role of Islam in Javanese civilisation as he does so. This study rests upon a vast range of Javanese and Dutch sources. Readers will gain a unique sense of how members of the Javanese elite thought, prayed and performed at this time, when pre-colonial Javanese court culture was at its height. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780824820527. Keywords : INDONESIA, Indonesia.

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Title: The seen and unseen world in Java 1726-1749. History, literature and Islam in the court of Pakubuwana II.
Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0824820525
ISBN 13: 9780824820527
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: as new
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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In this work Professor M. C. Ricklefs explores the nexus between religious belief and mundane behaviour in mid-eighteenth century Java - exploding widely accepted stereotypes about the role of Islam in Javanese civilisation as he does so. This study rests upon a vast range of Javanese and Dutch sources. Readers will gain a unique sense of how members of the Javanese elite thought, prayed and performed at this time, when pre-colonial Javanese court culture was at its height.

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Merle Ricklefs is Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University and one of the world's leading historians of Indonesia.

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