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Indonesia

إندونيسيا

A country in Southeast Asia: an archipelago of 17,508 islands by the book's count, about 238 million people, capital Jakarta on Java. The book gives Islam's arrival in the late 2nd or early 3rd century AH through Arab traders and places it within the Shafi'i and Ash'ari tradition; it describes long-standing Egyptian-Indonesian ties.

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Southeast Asia
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A state in Southeast Asia — an archipelago of 17,508 islands per the travel-book, with some 238 million people, its capital Jakarta on Java 1. Its motto is Unity in Diversity; its official language Bahasa 2. Islam entered it, per the book, in the late second and early third century AH through Arab traders 2; a country of historic ties to the Muslim world.

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Jakarta

People and things also explored

Sharif Hidayatullah State Islamic University· Abdul Karim Amrullah· Agus Salim· Ahmad Muhammad al-Tayyib· B. J. Habibie· Deddy Corbuzier· Hamka· Kasman Singodimedjo

Sources

  1. The Grand Imam's Journey to Indonesia , p. 24
  2. The Grand Imam's Journey to Indonesia , p. 26
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islam.museum contributors. “Indonesia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/polity/indonesia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Sharif Hidayatullah State Islamic University

State Islamic university in Jakarta, where the Grand Imam gave his address to Muslims in Asia and the world on 23 February 2016; its rector said the curriculum follows Al-Azhar's faculties.