About the Author

Carool Kersten is Reader in the Study of Islam and the Muslim world at King's College London. His research interests include the intellectual history of the modern Islamic world, political Islam, and the Islam in Southeast Asia. He has published four scholarly monographs, including Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World (Routledge, 2019) and A History of Islam in Indonesia (EUP, 2017).

Reviews

"Elegantly written, carefully crafted, and solidly grounded in scholarly sources and debates, this book provides an excellent synthetic account of the history of Islam in Indonesia. Carool Kersten's erudition, astute and judicious readings of the specialist literature, and his skills as a writer are all in ample evidence in this magisterial survey." -- John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science



"Elegantly written, carefully crafted, and solidly grounded in scholarly sources and debates, this book provides an excellent synthetic account of the history of Islam in Indonesia. Carool Kersten's erudition, astute and judicious readings of the specialist literature, and his skills as a writer are all in ample evidence in this magisterial survey." -- John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science