Michael Laffan - Indonesian Islam: The Modern, Global Shapings of a National Tradition?

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Global Islam: Past, Present and Future is presented by UBC Continuing Studies, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution. It is part of UBC Continuing Studies' Lifelong Learning Series. Laffan is a Professor of History at Princeton University where he studies the history of Southeast Asia, focusing at present on Islam, nationalism, Dutch colonialism and orientalism. He earned his B.A. in Asian Studies (Arabic) at the Australian National University in Canberra (1995) and got his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History from the University of Sydney (2001). He came to Princeton in 2005 from a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. In his first book, Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds (2003), he argued that Islam played a central and largely unacknowledged role in the Indonesian nationalist movement, which historians have tended to associate mainly with a secular, Dutch-educated elite. His forthcoming book, The Makings of Indonesian Islam, looks at the results of an engagement between Islamic reformers with intellectual links to Cairo and influential colonial scholars, arguing that they set the parameters for the ways in which Islam has been, and still is, imagined in specific ways in both Southeast Asia and the Academy. The next project, will use Sri Lanka as a lens to discuss a history of Indian Ocean mobilities and religious exchange.

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