Ramadan in Java

Download or read book Ramadan in Java written by André Möller and published by Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation aims at reducing this gap in the literature on Islamic cultures, and provides its readers with ways of approaching and understanding Ramadan - and various different Islamic phenomena - in Indonesia and in other parts of the Muslim world. It is argued that we preferably may approach Islam from three different angles, that is, to discuss it from the normative, the written, and the lived perspectives respectively. In this study, thorough attention is thus directed not only to the classical and normative Islamic texts and the lived reality in Java, but also to the popular and contemporary Indonesian literature on Ramadan.