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Tradition Versus Modernity in the Islamic World |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Baharuddin Ahmad |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 5,351 Words, 32,727 Characters |
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When the Portuguese armada first moored their vessels at the Malay port of Malacca on the southwest coast of the peninsula of Malaysia, the king and his subjects in this tiny kingdom had no notion that within two weeks the city of Malacca would fall into the hands of the Portuguese. The sultan or king of Malacca, Sultan Mahmud, refused the advice of his prime minister, a man of Indian origin, who asked Mahmud to declare war on the Portuguese. Not long after that Mahmud had to vacate his palace, flee to Riau, and spend the rest of his life in sorrow without ever returning to his empire again. So the Portuguese captured Malacca by force in 1511 for economic and religious interests, and the course of both the Malay Empire and Indonesia was irreversibly changed.
With the fall of Malacca ...
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... belief of an authentic Muslim is that the future of Islam, and the conflict that it shall undergo with modernity, is in the destiny that God has preserved. "God's hand is over their hands," says the Koran. Every one predicted that the Prophet of Islam would be crushed in Mecca, but he survived and formed his state in Medina, an unknown land to him and to his followers. Islam may yet prevail.
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