INTRODUCTION

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Notes

¹On the importance of sacral texts in Islamic education in Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular see van Bruinessen (1995) and Warnk (2009).

²On the relation between Islam and cultural pluralism in modern Asian nation-states see Tibi (2007).

³A catalogue has been published which gives an impression of the richness of materials from Buton in Malay, Wolio and Arabic (Achadiati Ikram et al. 2001).

⁴The catalogue of manuscripts from Lombok by Marrison (1999) includes several texts on Islam and history both in the Javanese and Sasak languages. Van der Meij (2002) edited a Javanese text from Lombok.

⁵Some ethnographic and historical information can be drawn from the occasional papers and notes of Christian missionaries like e.g. Kraemer (1927).

⁶On the return of the sultans in Indonesian local politics and societies see van Klinken (2007).