Dermagandhul, Serat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ricklefs, M. C.
Leiden
Brill
(1,085 words)
Serat Dermagandhul was one of three anti-Islamic tracts in Javanese evidently written in East Java in the 1870s in reaction to Islamic reform movements. Islamic reform's progress among Javanese from about the 1850s produced some resistance. A social group known as the abangan emerged, who attenuated their commitment to Islam and its rituals and came to be regarded as merely nominal Muslims. Anti-Islamic tracts were also written depicting Islam as a foreign import not suited to the Javanese. In 1870 a version of the chronicle Babad Pajajaran