Abangan refers to nominal or non-practising Muslims within Javanese society. From about the middle of the nineteenth century, there emerged in Javanese society a category of people who were defined by their failure-in the eyes of the more pious-to behave as proper Muslims. These were the abangan , a term that derives from the "Low Javanese" (ngoko) word abang , meaning the colour red or brown. At the time, the usual terms were bangsa abangan ("the red/brown people") or wong abangan ("the red/brown people"). In "High Javanese" (
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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