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" Indonesia: Java from the coming of Islam to 1942 - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ricklefs, M. C.
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AL
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English
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1062274
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ALei2671
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Ricklefs, M. C.
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Indonesia: Java from the coming of Islam to 1942 - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ricklefs, M. C.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(5,281 words)
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Evidence of Islamisation in Java first appears in the fourteenth century. By the late eighteenth century, Islam was the majority faith of Javanese. 1. The early stages of Islamisation in Java The earliest surviving evidence of Islam amongst the Javanese is in the form of gravestones at Trawulan and Tralaya, in East Java, near the site of the Hindu-Javanese court of Majapahit (late thirteenth-early sixteenth centuries). They are Muslim gravestones, since Hindus were cremated. The stones have quotations from the Qurʾān and pious formulae, yet they bear dates
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Islam.
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