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those carried out by philologists, we Islamic thought in accordance with the
can certainly conclude that attempts local contexts.
to reconstruct the history of Islamic Finally, I myself must admit that this
thought in Nusantara are far from being chapter is far from being complete.
complete. A number of manuscript There are still many historical fragments
catalogs published for the past decade of Islamic thought in the Archipelago,
suggest that lots of Islamic texts had not especially in Java, which I had not
been studied yet, either written in Arabic, elaborated deeply. I am sure that in the
Malay, Javanese, Sundanese or other future this chapter will be supplemented
local languages. We need to continue by scholarly findings of the related fields.
striving for the increase of attention to
the primary sources to be studied by
scholars, so that they could contribute in
the related fields.

Nonetheless, based on studies having
been discussed in this chapter, we
can assure that the Islamic thoughts
had contributed significantly to the
overall history of Islamic scholarship.
Islamic manuscripts resulted from the
Muslims’ interaction with teachers
and colleagues at the Islamic world,
especially Mecca and Medina, have also
proven that the Islamic thought develop
in the archipelago is part of the Islamic
thoughts flourished in the Islamic world.
Therefore, scholars who have been
studying history of Islamic thought in
any regions had actually no reason for
not considering ‘Indonesian Islam’ as
their focus of comparisons, because this
region has a very significant history of

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