Contesting Sacred Architecture

Politics of ‘Nation-State’ in the Battles of Mosques in Java

Bibliographic Data

ID8249552
AuthorsAchmad Fawaid (0000-0002-9952-5231, Nur University, corresponding author), Zamroni Zamroni (0000-0002-2350-3036, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Samarinda), Hasan Baharun (0000-0001-7165-9353)
Year2019
Volume7
Issue1
Pages129
Publication date2019-07-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQIJIS (Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2355-1895 • E-ISSN: 2476-9304
PublisherUniversitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kudus (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21043/qijis.v7i1.4365
OpenAlexW2962570941
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

This study aims to figure out a ‘political’ contestation of sacred mosques in Java and the ways the Javanese respond to the global architecture of the Middle Eastern Islam. By using a historical narrative method, this article describes a fact that some ‘sacred’ architectures which shaped from the national mosques became a site of battles between the modern Islamic and traditional Javanese worldviews and explores the continuum debate over architecture, culture, and power of Islam in Java through various events since the fifteenth until today. This study, finally, results in the issues related to not merely the almost unsolved dispute over modern and traditional architectures, between pan-Islamic modernists and Javanese traditionalists, but most importantly, the past stories and silent ideology behind the building of these mosques, and by doing so, it also questions our primordial understanding of nation-state

Ancient history · Art · Fifteenth · Ideology · Islam · Java · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Visual arts · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Cultural and Religious Practices in Indonesia · History · Law · Philosophy · Architecture

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