Ths brand new book from Malayasia gives a penetrating insight into the ways of spurious thinking and analytical reasoning in the histories of the Malay. Revaluating certain narratives popularly held by historians concerning Islamic societites in the Malay, al-Attas offers a new reinterpretation of the the historicity. The author also casts a new light on matters that have eluded inquiry and exposes errors some historians chronological framework and biased assumptions of Islamization within the region.
In short, a brand new way to look at Islam in the indigenous history within the Malyan Archipelago.