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Djoko Suryo

Apart from the reformist world in the nineteenth century,
there was also reformist religious literature in the Javanese court
(kraton) world. The declining position of the Javanese court in
political power it is not necessary to cut off their function in
cultural life. There were many reformist religious literature
works coming up in the courts of Kartasura, Surakarta, and
Yogyakarta during the end of the eighteenth century until the
nineteenth century. Some of them can be pointed out here, for
example, are Ratu Pakubuwana, the wife of the Javanese Karta-
sura ruler, with her works on Carita Sultan Iskandar, Carita nabi
Yusuf, and the Kitab Usulbiyah, Raden Ngabehi Yasadipura 1 with
his works on Serat Cabolek, Menak, Tajusalatin and Ambiya, Raden
Ngabehi Yasadipura 11 with his work on Sasana Sunu, while,
Ranggawarsita with one of his works on Wirid Hidayat Jati. 27
All of these prominent court writers seems tend to seek to
achieve a reconciliation between shari’a and the Sufi, which in-
dicated that they were affected by the Reformist thought which
coming from outside world. Similarly, the works of ‘Abdl al-
Samad al Palimbangi, Raja Ali Haji, AI Nawai, and Saleh Darat
expressed their engagement with reformist thought as the con-
sequence of the intellectual and social links between the Indo-
nesia and the Middle East were further consolidated.

4. The Muslim Intellectuals Responses to Reformism and
Nationalism

Not different with the nineteenth century, the dynamic of
the Indonesian Muslim intellectuals can not be separated with
the challenge of the social political transformation and the glo-
bal trends in the period. Therefore, to understand the chang-
ing trends in Muslim intellectual in the early of the twentieth
century in Indonesia it is better to point out some general trends
of the Muslim responses to the Modernization in the West Asia,

27 Ibid., pp. 173-183.

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