إندونيسيا

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.