"It has sometimes been assumed, with extraordinary unconcern for the historical evidence, that the more self-conscious Muslims of the coast were the greatest enemies of the Dutch Protestants, while the less firm Muslims ruling the interior kingdom of Mataram more readily became the tools of the Europeans. But this is simply not so."
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Ricklefs MC (1979) Six Centuries of Islamization in Java, in N. Levtzion ed. Nehemia Levtzion - Conversion To Islam (1979, Holmes & Meier Publishers)
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