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Deurham coin from Stutterheim, or even Islamologist, like a “thin layer” on top of the Javanese always have to face realities and at times this perspective, a tradition can be seen Left A Muslim
the era of the rule of L.W.C. van den Berg, and others saw the civilization. However, supposedly this freedom should find modus vivendi within as an atmosphere of human freedom community resided in
Samudera Pasai. The fall of Majapahit as the beginning of a information is true---something that the structural necessity--- so, tradition which should direct a continuous Majapahit.Archeological
coins were the media “new era” that Islam (and therefore, said should be debated--- whether this could can also be seen as a set of values and dialogue within the structural and evidence for this was
of exchange and they van den Berg Islamic law was in force explain the differing manifestation of Islam knowledge systems determining the external realities. Therefore, an attempt found in the graveyard
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signify Arabian cultural among natives), is not the case with a as a local and communal culture and nature and style of cognitive community, to find varieties of traditions underlying of Troloyo, in the village
acculturation in the later view. Berg, Schrieke, even Drewes, religion among the Javanese community? namely social groups bound by the the differing Islamic communities is a way of Trowulan, district
Kingdom of Samudera and their followers emphasized the shared acknowledgement to what to understand the course and prospects of Mojokerto in the
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Pasai. Moreover, attempts to make a room for of their own history. center of the Capital of
unbroken linkage in the history of Java. these opposing academic tendencies, is considered as a valid and correct
Source: Private In a speech that until now is considered stating that the history of Indonesia knowledge. Tradition gives awareness However, the formation of the tradition is Majapahit. The tombs
collection of Abdul Hadi a classic, because it was so precisely should be seen as an arena of the clash of identity and connective feeling with more likely to be discerned if the pattern of Troloyo are generally
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WM formulated views of scientists who were of change and continuity forces are mere something considered to be earlier. of cultural clash, namely when Islam met thought to date from
the 14 -16 centuries
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fascinated with the idea of this linkage, complete truism for an academic issue. Using the term introduced by the local culture, being considered first. The and are inscribed with
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van Leur said that Islam in Java was Does the historical arena always show historian of epistemology, Thomas pattern of the clash is also not the same. ancient Java scripts.
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South East Asia, London: Oxford UniversityPress, clashes of these two? Kuhn, tradition as used in this section So is the pattern of “collective memory”,
1962, 13-23. Therefore, another analyzing device may also be referred to as “cultural as recorded by traditions and distinctly Source: Atlas Sejarah
14. See Mohammad Daud Ali, “Kedudukan Hukum paradigm”, which provides the foundation defined by the traditional historiography. Indonesia Masa Islam
Islam dalam Hulcum Indonesia”, dalam Taufik that, who knows, could be more strategic of thinking patterned to be taken for (Historical Atlas of
Abdullah & Sharon Siddique (eds.) Tradisi dan should be sought. Also to use the granted that is generally accepted by the This chapter will be used to see this Indonesia’s Islamic
Kebangkitan Islam di Asia Tenggara, Jakarta: concept of “shaping traditions” can be pattern of cultural clash. The next chapter
LP3ES, 1989, 208-238. community who belong to it. will discuss the ideological foundation Period), 2010.
15. C.C. Berg, as well as some other Dutch considered for this purpose.
Indonesians, is included into scientists who History is an arena of continuous of the Islamic empire, while the fourth Right The tombstone of
emphasize the natural continuity aspect of the As something handed down from the dialogue between internal and external chapter discusses the formation process
history of Java. The arrival of Islam did not change past, tradition is not only related to the realities. History is a forum where of power centers and political tradition. Malik Al-Shaleh, the first
anything; besides, recently someone holds the fundament of legitimacy but also to Muslim ruler who died in
power is a sultan. See, for example “Islamization mankind or it could be a community (as 1297.
of Java”, Studia Islamica (Paris), 1950, 4: 111-142. the system of authority. As a concept is always emphasized by the school Patterns of Cultural Encounter
Berg further developed the theory of this continuity of history, tradition can be discerned Source: Atlas Sejarah
in his later writings. In his article published after as a cultural paradigm for viewing and of Annales) ---as an historical actor--- Perhaps it is not the purpose Tomé
his demise, Indonesian Sociological Studies, vol trying to fight all kinds of obstacles and Pirés to start a never-ending controversy Indonesia Masa Islam
II, (The Hague and Bandung: W. van Hoeve, 1957) interpreting reality. Because the process pressures that hinder their desire. From (Historical Atlas of
B. Schrieke explicitly shows that since the earliest of shaping tradition is essentially a about the process of Islamization in the Indonesia’s Islamic
Hindu kingdom to the appearance and rupture of 18. E. Shils, Tradition, Chicago: Chicago University Archipelago. But when he stated in his
Mataram, traditions and political culture of Java had process of selection---when ideals Press, 1983. book, which has long been forgotten, Period), 2010.
practically unchanged. 17. See Taufik Abdullah, Islam dan Masyarakat: 19. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific
16. J.C. van Leur, Indonesian Trade and Society, Pamulan Sejarah Indonesia, Jakarta: LP3ES, 1987, Revolution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, that after “the Moor and the mullahs”
The Hague, Bandung: W. van Hoeve, 1955. 226-230. 1968 (second edition). multipled, they tried hard “to make the

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