Book on Masyumi party offers new perspective on political Islam

Source: NUS Press.

NUS Press has published Islam and Politics in Indonesia: The Masyumi Party Between Democracy and Integralism (ISBN: 978-9971-69-843-0). By Rémy Madinier and translated by Jeremy Desmond, the book chronicles the activities of the Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960. 

Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was inspired by the values of Islam, with moderate policies which were favourable to the West and tolerant towards other religious communities in Indonesia. According to the publishers, Madinier offers a perspective on political Islam which provides an alternative to the more widely-studied model of Middle-Eastern Islam. 

Rémy Madinier is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and co-director of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE-EHESS), while Jeremy Desmond teaches English at the Jean Moulin University in Lyon. Desmond has already translated a number of articles on Southeast Asian studies.

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