| Abstract: |
By the end of the seventeenth century, Islam had become an important part of people’s lives in large portions of Island Southeast Asia. The social processes at work behind this remarkable transformation, which has left the contemporary nation of Indonesia with the world’s largest Muslim population, remain unclear. Scholars have approached these questions from a variety of perspectives, but their evidence has been primarily from textual sources. This article briefly considers how archaeological evidence has contributed to this scholarship, and assesses its potential as a source of data for future research.
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