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3 2 6Islam i n World Cult u r e s7. Muslim Thought and Practice in Contemporary IndonesiaPrimary Sources Available in EnglishKurzman, Charles, ed. 1998. Liberal Islam: A Sourc e b o o k . New York: OxfordUniversity Press.———, ed. 2002. M o d e rnist Islam, 1840–1940: A Sourc e b o o k . New York: OxfordUniversity Press.These two readers are great resources for the study of Islam in the modernworld. Both contain translations of Indonesian texts, including pieces by MohamadNatsir, Ahmad Hassan, and Nurcholish Madjid.Renard, John, ed. 1998. Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spiritualityand Religious Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.Among the short texts translated in this anthology are pieces from a numberof modern Indonesian Muslim authors, including Nurcholish Madjid andHamka.Rodgers, Susan. 1995. Telling History, Telling Lives: Autobiography and HistoricalImagination in Modern Indonesia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of CaliforniaPress.This anthropological study of two modern Indonesian memoirs includesan English translation of Muhamad Radjab’s Village Childhood. Radjab grew upas a Muslim in the Minangkabau region of West Sumatra, and this work conveysaspects of the dramatic changes that the Muslim society there was experiencingin the early twentieth century.Secondary StudiesBarton, Greg. 2002. A b d u rrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian Pre s i-d e n t . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.This authorized biography of the Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid, affectionatelyreferred to by his followers as Gus Dur, traces his experiencesfrom his youth spent in the traditional Muslim milieu of Javanese pesantren,through his student days in Cairo and Baghdad and his rise to nationalprominence as head of the Nahdlatul Ulama organization, to his eventualpresidency of the Republic of Indonesia.B e a t t y, Andrew. 1999. Varieties of Javanese Religion: An Anthropological Account.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.