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The Religious Debates of Aceh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: An Invisible Cultural Dialogue?

The Religious Debates of Aceh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: An Invisible Cultural... Abstract The religious polemics of seventeenth-century Aceh are usually presented as an indication of the high level of Islamic scholarship in this period. On the evidence of unpublished manuscripts, we will, on the contrary, defend the idea that these mystical debates took place between foreign Muslim missionaries, with little contact with the local population. The absence of cultural dialogue between local pre-Islamic religious ideas and Middle Eastern Sufism will lead us to a rethinking of the islamization process, in Aceh and the Malay world. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

The Religious Debates of Aceh in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: An Invisible Cultural Dialogue?

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Dialogues and Intra-Asian Connections
ISSN
0022-4995
eISSN
1568-5209
DOI
10.1163/15685209-12341239
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Abstract

Abstract The religious polemics of seventeenth-century Aceh are usually presented as an indication of the high level of Islamic scholarship in this period. On the evidence of unpublished manuscripts, we will, on the contrary, defend the idea that these mystical debates took place between foreign Muslim missionaries, with little contact with the local population. The absence of cultural dialogue between local pre-Islamic religious ideas and Middle Eastern Sufism will lead us to a rethinking of the islamization process, in Aceh and the Malay world.

Journal

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2012

Keywords: Aceh; cultural dialogue; mysticism; religious history; seventeenth century

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