"The people of Perlak (Nth Sumatra) used to be idolaters, but owing to contact with Saracen merchants, who continually…"

"In Indonesia we were almost at the limit of the Islamic world. For a thousand years or so until 1400 this had been a …"

"The fact that Islam sits lightly on most Muslims in Indonesia, has not prevented a hard core to display the patented …"

"Islam has struck deeper roots on the coast, and has tended to be at its most self- conscious among trading communitie…"

"It has sometimes been assumed, with extraordinary unconcern for the historical evidence, that the more self-conscious…"

"In the course of the centuries, Islam spread throughout the Javanese population, until its adoption by the last large…"

"‘At the time when there were heathens along the sea coast of Java, many merchants used to come, Parsees, Arabs, Gujar…"

"From the fourteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, the (Indonesian) archipelago saw almost no organise…"

"The people of Perlak (Nth Sumatra) used to be idolaters, but owing to contact with Saracen merchants, who continually…"

"‘At the time when there were heathens along the sea coast of Java, many merchants used to come, Parsees, Arabs, Gujar…"