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Day Two (review of the literature)
1/ Generally speaking, the events of the Iranian revolution grabbed the attention of people across the world. Revolutionary works, statements and religious fatwas were monitored by global news agencies.
Day Two (review of the literature)
1/ Generally speaking, the events of the Iranian revolution grabbed the attention of people across the world. Revolutionary works, statements and religious fatwas were monitored by global news agencies.
2/ it was no surprise to see the works of Iranian revolutionary figures being read by people of the Malay archipelago. Interestingly enough, revolutionary concepts such as martyr (shahid), among others, became popular in Malaysia and Indonesia.
3/This title was at the outset given to Ali Shariati (d. 1977), one of the most influential theorists of the revolution.People not only in Iran, but also in Malaysia and Indonesia, assumed that he was one of the main pre-revolutionary activists to be "murdered" by
4/ Mohammad Reza Shah’s security agents. The Islamic publisher IQRA Press, based in Petaling Jaya in Malaysia, published various copies of Shariati’s works, most
notably ‘the Hajj’ (the Pilgrimage) in 1989.
notably ‘the Hajj’ (the Pilgrimage) in 1989.
5/Upon its publication, this book was tendentiously reviewed by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (a Malaysian politician) as well as Suroosh Irfani (a Pakistani scholar). both scholars believe that he was a pre-revolutionary Iranian syahid
6/who was killed by the Shah’s Secret Intelligence Organisation, known as SAVAK.According to this review, after 12 years of ‘his martyrdom’, IQRA ‘decided to publish the Malay version of Shariati’s Hajj.
7/Further, a large group of Malaysians and Indonesians visited Iran to observe the traces of the revolution, and at the same time to report on Iran’s progress in countering the military war with Iraq.
8/In addition, pictures of Iranian soldiers were seen in magazines, which substantiates the claim that
Malay Islamists were impressed with Middle East events.
Malay Islamists were impressed with Middle East events.
9/In addition, a large number of Malaysian and Indonesian scholars, also impressed by Iranian revolutionary thoughts, studied in the Iranian Islamic seminaries (hawza) and returned to their homelands to progress with their Islamic Shi'i mission.
10/Islamic Shi’i rituals popular in Iran, including the eulogies (maddahi) to commemorate the death of Husayn b. Ali (the third Imam of Shi’is) in Karbala and the collective recitation of supplications (e.g. do’ay-e Kumayl), used to be performed and recited by Singaporean Shi’is
11/All these elements together led scholars to examine the influence of the 1979 Iranian revolution on Southeast Asia in general, and on the Malay-Indonesian world in
particular.
particular.
12/However, a large body of literature has been practically silent about the image of influential Iranian figures, including the Shah and Khomeini in Indonesia and Malaysia before and after the Iranian revolution. This is what I want to talk about soon.
By the way, do not forget to follow @ratuteragung and @rowenarazak and their amazing works with @SEA_historian ; they invite all of us to reconsider historical connections between the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
