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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
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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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