M. Syafi'i Anwar

M. Syafi'i Anwar is an Indonesian historian and journalist. He is a senior research fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation as well as the executive director of the International Center For Islam and Pluralism.[1][2]

Anwar was instrumental to the founding of the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals, having participation in 1990 meeting with B. J. Habibie that led to the organization's establishment.[3] Anwar has defended the IAMI as a middle-class organization, stating that the Indonesian middle-class of the 1980s and 1990s was culturally self-confident and lacked the inferiority complex toward the modern world, supported by non-Muslims and Javanists, that had been imprinted on Muslims during the colonial era.[4]

References
  1. Islam and Democracy: Two Expressions of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Accessed 22 December 2016.
  2. Islam and Democracy: Two Expressions of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Accessed 22 December 2016.
  3. Robert W. Hefner and Patricia Horvatich, Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia, pg. 96. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. ISBN 9780824819576
  4. R. William Liddle, The Islamic Turn in Indonesia: A Political Explanation. Taken from Religion, Globalization and Political Culture in the Third World, pg. 117. Ed. Jeff Haynes. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1999. ISBN 9781349270385
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