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The Graveyard of the   similar process ---traders and Muslim   also the foundation of the Islamic political   different, as described above and as   traveler, whose manuscript of his report
 Kings of Gowa. When   preachers came and then formed a   tradition. The second thing reached its   a result the emergence of different   has coincidentally discovered (1949). But
 the palace of Gowa-Tallo   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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 formally had converted   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
 to Islam, it caused at   dynasties were established, differences   Islamic kingdoms.  the spiritual power from the center of   scientist, Fatimi,  denied Marrison and
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 least three patterns of   in political traditions also manifest   the Islamic empire in Southeast Asia is   finally determine Bengal as the “sender”
 “cultural encounters”   themselves. In the span of time since the   Second, differences in the patterns of   not different.  of Islam to the archipelago. He even
 along the process of   end of the 13 century, when Samudera-  Islamization process and the supra-  said the immense possibilities that Mirah
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 the establishment of the   Pasai was founded, until the early 17 th   village organization power formation as   Collective Memory Networks  Silu, who was mentioned in Hikayat
 centers of Islamic power.  century, when the palace of Gowa-Tallo   if gaina justification from the traditional   One of the debates about the process of   Raja-Raja Pasai and became Malik as-
 historiography. Being written or at least
 Source: Directorate 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
 History and Cultural   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
 Values, Ministry of   the process of establishing Islamic power   chronicle, story, or lontara, those writings   the region. Then, based on the style of   China, with its trade centers in Canton
 Education and Culture   centers.  do not merely record the collective   tombstones used in Samudera Pasai   and the Central Asian regions that had
 of the Republic of   Although in this time span the   memory, but also and more importantly,   and Gresik, and apparently also by   undergone a process of Islamization, as
 Indonesia.   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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