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  1. Mar 2025
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    Self, Family, Nation - Islamic Pasts and Futures
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    1. atoure3 25 Mar 2025
      I was abundantly aware of the fact that the ancestors of the Minangkabau people were illiterate and their descendants were ignorant and foolish.…What would we become, we young fellows, if we followed the guidance and teachings of the kiais

      In this final annotation, Radjab articulates his view that clinging to obsolete religious teachings is an existential threat to progress. His stark language underscores the urgency with which he believes the younger generation must break away from tradition to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, thus reinforcing the modernist drive toward renewal and forward-thinking.

    2. atoure3 25 Mar 2025
      I was always worried that if I stayed there a long time, associating with these santris who were thinking like human beings living in the thirteenth century, I’d surely be influenced by them.

      This poignant reflection reveals Radjab’s anxiety that prolonged exposure to archaic thought would stifle his intellectual and creative energies. It encapsulates the modernist fear of being trapped in outdated paradigms—a sentiment that fueled calls for educational and cultural reform in many colonized societies.

    3. atoure3 25 Mar 2025
      In the sociopolitical arena, the greatest consequence of European imperialism was the imagining of new nations, many of which would eventually become the basis for new states upon colonialism’s end

      This situates Islam within the broader historical context of colonialism and the formation of modern nation-states.

    4. atoure3 25 Mar 2025
      One feels that Islam is ripe for wholesale dismantling, to be replaced by either a better reconstructed version or an altogether different sociointellectual system.

      This highlights the tension between traditional Islamic practices and modernist calls for reform or complete overhaul.

    5. atoure3 25 Mar 2025
      Islam can be a suffocating prison, a collection of outdated ideas and practices that underwrites the oppression of elites over common people, the old over the young, and men over women.

      This quote depicts a important perspective on Islam's role in traditional societies and how it has been viewed by reformists and modernists.

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