Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power By Yudi Latif (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008. 544 pages.)

Abstract

Yudi Latif’s Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power provides a broad,
interdisciplinary, and long-term study of Indonesia’s Muslim intelligentsia
from the late nineteenth until the early twenty-first century. His methodology
stresses the reinterpretation of secondary sources, but does include primary
data collected via a documentary and database survey, interviews, a
questionnaire, and direct observation. Latif attempts to situate his multigenerational
description and analysis within an interdisciplinary framework
that includes politics, economics, education, discursive practices, the public
sphere, and intellectual traditions. The book consists of seven chapters,
including an introduction and a conclusion ...