From “Haramayn” to “Southeast Asia” Islamization through the Education Institutions in The Early Twentieth Century

Abstract

Haramayn is the diversified significant locations; as the Muslim spiritual core center, Islamic knowledge center and as the Hajj Pilgrimage site where the Hajj pilgrims gathering during the Month of Zulhijjah in accordance to the Islamic Calendar. As the center of knowledge, the Haramayn as the center of knowledge transformation both carried by Southeast Asian scholars or other region scholars beginning as early as the 17^th century up till at least the early 20^th century. Educational institutions in the Haramayn had shaped Muslim-hood worldly and spiritually. The process of learning at the institutions both in form of the schooling system (madrasah) and the traditional system (halaqah) had later transformed into Muslim society in Southeast Asia and as well experience collected from there had brought back and disseminated into their community. It later becomes the route of the process of the Islamization in Southeast Asia in the whole 20^th century.