{"product_id":"ummah-yet-proletariat-9780197657386","title":"Ummah Yet Proletariat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1965 to 1966, at least 500,000 Indonesians were killed in military-directed violence that targeted suspected Communists. Muslim politicians justified the killings, arguing that Marxism posed an existential threat to all religions. Since then, the demonization of Marxism, as well as the presumed irreconcilability of Islam and Marxism, has permeated Indonesian society. Today, the Indonesian military and Islamic political parties regularly invoke the spectre of Marxism as an enduring threat that would destroy the republic if left unchecked.In Ummah Yet Proletariat, Lin Hongxuan explores the relationship between Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and Indonesia from the publication of the first Communist periodical in 1915 to the beginning of the 1965-66 massacres. Lin demonstrates how, in contrast to state-driven narratives, Muslim identity and Marxist analytical frameworks coexisted in Indonesian minds, as well as how individuals'' Islamic faith shaped their openn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the most important studies of Islam and Marxist thought published in the past few years—not just in Indonesia, but in scholarship on the entire Muslim-majority world. The book will achieve, I believe, a significant readership in Indonesian and Southeast Asian studies...[and also] among the much larger community of students and scholars interested in the turgid but fascinating history of Islam and Marxism in the modern Muslim world, an interest that is today growing. This book addresses timely issues-and does so with a wealth of documentation and a clarity of argument. In sum—this is an outstanding book. * Robert Hefner, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University *\u003cbr\u003eThis book retrieves a history that is unimaginable in today's Indonesia—a history of Muslims seeing themselves as Marxists, of Marxists seeing themselves as Muslims, and all manner of Indonesian nationalists combining Islam and Communism in new and unexpected ways. Lin, with a comprehensive grasp of the print culture of the decades from the 1910s to the 1960s, vividly recreates a lost world whose sense of creativity still holds the promise of inspiring a different future for Indonesia. * John Roosa, author of Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia *\u003cbr\u003eUmmah Yet Proletariat is a richly illuminating study of Indonesian societies in which Muslims reconciled Islam and Marxism theoretically and in their material lives. Lin Hongxuan meticulously analyses Indonesian-Malay materials and recounts much-needed histories of left-wing Islamic reform as well as Islamic and Marxist labour movements, print culture and parliamentary politics. Accessibly written, this book is a remarkable addition to the study of modern Indonesia and Islam, reminding us that Indonesia should be central to conversations regarding Asian Marxism and Islamic Third Worldism. * Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter One: Incubating Communism in the Netherlands East Indies Chapter Two: New Modes of Movement Chapter Three: The Revolutionary Consensus Chapter Four: A Critical Ummah, A Conscious Proletariat  Epilogue: NASAKOM and Its Proponents Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732669804887,"sku":"9780197657386","price":71.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ummah-yet-proletariat-9780197657386","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}