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The tombs of the Kings   similar process ---traders and Muslim   also the foundation of the Islamic political          different, as described above and as   traveler, whose manuscript of his report
          of Gowa. Ternate         preachers came and then formed a        tradition. The second thing reached its               a result the emergence of different    has coincidentally discovered (1949). But
          and Gowa-Tallo were      community--- but on the next stage, when   peak in the 17 and the 18 century, two             political traditions ---something that will   the debate has not been completed. In
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          converted to Islam       the power centers were formed and the   centuries marked by the rise and crisis of            be discussed later--- the foundation of   a very fiery style an Indian subcontinent
          through traders who      dynasties were established, differences   Islamic kingdoms.                                   the spiritual power from the center of   scientist, Fatimi,  denied Marrison and
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          called at their ports and   in political traditions also manifest                                                      the Islamic empire in Southeast Asia is   finally determine Bengal as the “sender”
          later their numbers and   themselves. In the span of time since the   Second, differences in the patterns of           not different.                         of Islam to the archipelago. He even
          political roles increased.  end of the 13 century, when Samudera-  Islamization process and the supra-                                                        said the immense possibilities that Mirah
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                                   Pasai was founded, until the early 17 th   village organization power formation as            Collective Memory Networks             Silu, who was mentioned in Hikayat
          Source: Atlas Sejarah                                            if gaina justification from the traditional
          Indonesia Masa Islam     century, when the palace of Gowa-Tallo   historiography. Being written or at least            One of the debates about the process of   Raja-Raja Pasai and became Malik as-
          (Historical Atlas of     officially embraced Islam, at least three   begin to be drafted, when a political             Islamization in Southeast Asia is about   Saleh, was also a “Bengali”. The debate
          Indonesia’s Islamic      patterns of “cultural clash” had occurred in   tradition had found its form like tarsila,     from where the religion is brought into   could also still be forwarded. Because
          Period), 2010.           the process of establishing Islamic power                                                                                            China, with its trade centers in Canton
                                   centers.                                chronicle, story, or lontara, those writings          the region. Then, based on the style of   and the Central Asian regions that had
                                                                           do not merely record the collective                   tombstones used in Samudera Pasai
                                   Although in this time span the          memory, but also and more importantly,                and Gresik, and apparently also by     undergone a process of Islamization, as
                                   progress of Islam should be retained,   reveal the myth of fortitude, as well as the          taking into account of the trade route,   well as the influence of the Hui ethnic
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                                   such as for example, as claimed by      foundation stone and reinforcing legitimacy.          Moquette  came to a conclusion that    group in the Ming Dynasty (the 14  to
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                                   Negarakertagama, and implicitly                                                               Islam came from Cambay, Gujarat. This   the 17 century) can also appear as “the
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                                   recognized by Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai,    In the history of Islamization process and          view seems to be influential for quite   challenger”.  How about the homeland of
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                                   when Samudera Pasai was under the       the power centers establishment, Islam                long, as it has also been inserted into   this religion itself --the Arab Peninsula?
                                   hegemony of Majapahit (1350s), this age   does not only show the differing patterns           the historical text books. But a British   In his inaugural address as a professor
                                   not only can be considered as the period   of cultural clash between the coming               scientist, Marrison,  shows that this is   of PTAIN Yogyakarta and then defended
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                                   of formation of Islamic kingdoms, but   Islam and the local culture. This historical                                                 in the first seminar about the coming of
                                                                           event also shows how various “Muslim                  not possible. According to him, at that   Islam to Indonesia (1963), Buya Hamka
                                   57.   By  putting  on  a  structural  approach  to  the                                       time Gujarat was still under the influence
                                   myth,  something  which  is  formulated  as  a  “unity   regions” in Southeast Asia are also                                         proposed a “theory” that Islam came to
                                   of socialized linguistic form” who wants to believe   woven by various networks between the   of Hinduism. He also said that Islam is   the archipelago directly from Arabia as
                                   to  be  “true”,  Berg  in  his  writings  (published  in                                      more likely to have come from South
                                   Indonesia, in the early 1950s) said that the concept   sending areas, namely the “deployment                                         this had occurred probably in the first
                                   of  “Greater  Majapahit  “  is  simply  a  myth.  Power   bridge”, with recipients Islam recorded by   India. This opinion is also supported by   century AH. This opinion was supported
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                                   was more a mental attitude rather than power in a   the collective memory. These networks     Tome Pires, the 16  century Portuguese
                                   real sense. In summary, these writings formulated                                                                                    60. S.Q. Fatimi, Islam Comes to Malaysia, (edited by
                                   in C.C. Berg, “The Javanese Picture of the Past”,   then were also reinforced by the chains   58. J.P.  Moquette,  “De  Grafsteenen  te  Pase  en   Shirle Gordon), Singapore: Malaysian Sociological
                                   Soedjatmoko et. all (eds.): An Introduction, 87-118.   of teachers and pupils and finally by the   Grisse vergeleken met dergelijke monumenten uit   Research Institute Ltd, 1963.
                                   Berg very extreme views that do not trust the local                                           Huidoestan”, T.B.G., 54 (1912), 536-548.  61.  See for example, Dr.Haji Yusuf Chang,”The Ming
                                   sources of cause heated debate among philologists,   increasing book spread. Thus, although   59. G.E. Marrison,  “The coming of Islam to the East   Empire:  Patron  of  Islam  in  China  and  Southeast-
                                   archeologists, and historians.          the patterns of the cultural clash are                Indies”, JMBRAS, 24 (1951), 28-37.     West Asia”, JMBRAS, Ixi (part 2, (1988), 1-44.


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