Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia
The School of Pacific and Asian Studies is pleased to announce the launch of Muslim Societies in Asia, a new educational initiative beginning in Fall 2008. This web site will provide resource access points for topics primarily related to Muslim societies in Southeast Asia. E-mail us with your feedback and your contributions to the development of this important educational resource.
On-line Resources
The Islamic Development Bank
The Islamic Development Bank is a Multilateral Development Bank
(MDB), established to foster the economic development and social
progress of its member countries and Muslim communities in non-member
countries in accordance with the principles of Shari'ah (Islamic Law).
University of Hawaii Southeast Asia Collection
The collection contains reference
materials on Islam in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia Digital Library
The University of Northern Illinois is the home of the Southeast Asia Digital Library and holds a vast amount of video from Indonesia.
Islam and Asia
In response to the public’s growing interest in Islam, in 2007 the Center for Southeast Asian Studies organized “Islamic Cultures in Reflection: A Southeast Asia Photograph Exhibition.” Curated by graduate students Anthony Medrano and Sapril Akhmady, the mission of the exhibition was to visually and substantially address the cultural diversity of Islam in the region. This is an important effort, in itself, given the dominant image and narrative of Islam in American society. Whether it is a Bugis wedding where the bride is beautifully adorned in gold or a colorful classroom full of public school teachers playing games in Mindanao, the hope of this exhibition is to enrich the public’s knowledge of Islam.
“The people,” noted Barbara Watson Andaya, Director of the Center, “were able to contribute to a process that was to give Southeast Asian Islam a distinctive character which it has retained to the present day.” It is this “distinctive character” that has inspired the exhibition, and energized individuals to submit their photographs from places as distant as Aceh and Ithaca. The exhibit travelled to several classroom throughout the state of Hawaii and was sponsored by a grant from the Hawaii Council for the Humanities.
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