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GWJ Drewes, Taufik Abdullah, Islam and Society in Southeast Asia Book Reviews - G.W.J. Drewes, Taufik Abdullah, Islam and society in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian studies, Singapore, 1986, XII and 348 pp., Sharon Siddique (eds.) - Th. van den End, T.Valentino Sitoy, A history of Christianity in the Philippines. The initial encounter , Vol. I, Quezon City (Philippines): New day publishers, 1985. - R. Hagesteijn, David G. Marr, Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th centuries, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian studies and the research school of Pacific studies of the Australian National University, 1986, 416 pp., A.C. Milner (eds.) - R. Hagesteijn, Constance M. Wilson, The Burma-Thai frontier over sixteen decades - Three descriptive documents, Ohio University monographs in international studies, Southeast Asia series No. 70, 1985,120 pp., Lucien M. Hanks (eds.) - Barbara Harrisson, John S. 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De Walburg Pers, Zutphen, 1986, 104 pp., 13 ills. and map. - G.J. Schutte, W.Ph. Coolhaas, Generale missiven van Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VIII: 1725-1729, Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Grote Serie 193, s-Gravenhage, 1985, 275 pp. - H. Steinhauer, Jeff Siegel, Language contact in a plantation environment. A sociolinguistic history of Fiji, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, xiv + 305 pp. [Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 5.] - H. Steinhauer, L.E. Visser, Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary and Sahu grammar sketch, Verhandelingen van het KITLV 126, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1987, xiv + 258 pp., C.L. Voorhoeve (eds.) - Taufik Abdullah, H.A.J. Klooster, Indonesiërs schrijven hun geschiedenis: De ontwikkeling van de Indonesische geschiedbeoefening in theorie en praktijk, 1900-1980, Verhandelingen KITLV 113, Dordrecht/Cinnaminson: Foris Publications, 1985, Bibl., Index, 264 pp. - Maarten van der Wee, Jan Breman, Control of land and labour in colonial Java: A case study of agrarian crisis and reform in the region of Ceribon during the first decades of the 20th century, Verhandelingen of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden, No. 101, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. xi + 159 pp. In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 143 (1987), no: 4, Leiden, 555-613 This PDF-file was downloaded from http://www.kitlv-journals.nl Downloaded from Brill.com10/11/2021 09:22:42AM via free access BOEKBESPREKINGEN ONVOLLEDIGE VERMELDING Aan de 'Rechtzetting' van Dr. J. van Goor, opgenomen in de Bijdragen van 1987, jrg. 143, p. 159, is door ons de volledige tekst van het sonnet van G. J. Resink toegevoegd. Verzuimd is echter te vermelden dat het gedicht voorkomt in de bundel Kreeft en Steenbok, uitgegeven door G. A. van Oorschot te Amsterdam in het jaar 1963. Wij bieden auteur en uitgever voor deze omissie onze verontschuldigingen aan. Redactie Taufik Abdullah and Sharon Siddique (eds.), Islam and Society in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singa- pore, 1986, XII and 348 pp. G. W. J. DREWES The Singapore Institute, which in 1985 published the useful compilation Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia, has now followed up this compre- hensive work with the publication of the papers presented at the work- shop on Islam in Southeast Asia that was held by the Institute in February 1983. They are 13 in number and come from as many authors, of whom five are from Indonesia, four from Malaysia, two from Singa- pore, one from Thailand and one from the Philippines. Accounting for their approach, the editors say in the Introduction that, in accordance with on-going research on the topic, three themes emerge as major foei: tradition, reformation, and state formation - interwoven themes, which can be viewed under the aspect of universality, in a national context, or in the local setting. The last-mentioned view, being the more concrete, perhaps taken cumulatively is the more indicative of the broader conse- quences for the long-term direction of the development of Islam in Southeast Asia. Accordingly, one finds between the opening and the concluding paper eleven contributions dealing with local problems and affairs. In the first article, by Chandra Muzaffar, and entitled 'Islamic Resur- gence: A Global View (with illustrations from Southeast Asia)', the author, formerly a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Science, Penang, explains why he prefers
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