The Crescent Arises over the Banyan Tree : A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, C.1910s-2010 (2ND)

This book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970-72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity.