KBA13 Academy Archive and Library
KBA Writings
Books, journal articles, papers and other writings by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad.
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ONLINEJournal articleEducational Practice: Lessons to be Learned from Madrasah and Religious Schools in Contemporary Southeast Asia
A work by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad published in the Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Vol. 5 No. 1, 2015. DOI: 10.18326/ijims.v5i1.29-48.
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ONLINEJournal articleA Current Portrait of Islamic Education in Aceh
A paper by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad published in Islamika Indonesiana, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2014. DOI: 10.15575/isin.v1i1.1.
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ONLINEJournal articleImajinasi Kebangsaan di Nusantara: Suatu Kajian Bibliografis [National Imagination in the Nusantara: A Bibliographical Study]
A work by Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad published in Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 13 No. 2, 2017. DOI: 10.18196/afkaruna.v13i2.4…
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AMAZONBookKishore Mahbubani: Singapore’s Diplomat-Philosopher and the Case for an Asian Century
Who shaped the idea of the Asian Century—and how much of that vision was shaped by Singapore itself? Few Asian thinkers have challenged Western assumptions about global…
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AMAZONBookSosiologi dan Antropologi Hukum Keluarga (Indonesian Edition) [Sociology and Anthropology of Family Law]
How are we to understand family law when society, values, and family life change faster than the law that governs them? Marriage, divorce, relations between husband and…
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AMAZONBookIslam di Dunia Melayu dan Samudera Hindia: Sejarah, Jaringan, dan Paradigma Baru Studi Islam (Indonesian Edition) [Islam in the Malay World and the Indian Ocean: History, Networks, and a New Paradigm of Islamic Studies (Indonesian Edition)]
How might we understand Islam in the Malay World if we stop seeing it through the boundaries of modern states and begin to view the sea as a space of history, civilisati…
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AMAZONBookThe Professor of Everything: Jiang Xueqin, Predictive History, and the Making of a YouTube Seer
How does a Beijing schoolteacher become “China’s Nostradamus”—and what does his extraordinary rise tell us about who we trust to explain the world? Jiang Xueqin emerged…
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AMAZONBookJohn Kiriakou: From “Muslim Hunter” to CIA Whistleblower: Inside the Anatomy of CIA Covert Operations
What happens when a CIA officer who once helped hunt America’s enemies becomes one of the Agency’s most outspoken public critics? John Kiriakou: From “Muslim Hunter” to…
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AMAZONBookTHE BEIJING FACTOR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Chinese Power, Regional Response, and the Contest for the Archipelago
China’s rise is transforming Southeast Asia—but not in the way either Beijing’s admirers or its critics often assume. From the South China Sea and the Natuna Islands to…
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AMAZONBookThe Future of Islamic Studies: Tawḥīd, Knowledge, and Civilizational Foresight in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education
What should Islamic knowledge become in an age shaped by artificial intelligence, digital culture, planetary crises, and an intensifying global struggle over who defines…
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AMAZONBookLeaving to Remain: Migration, Matriliny, and Membership among the Minangkabau of Indonesia
What happens to a society when a large part of its population is somewhere else? For generations, the Minangkabau of West Sumatra have answered that question through me…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin et le mundus imaginalis: Ontologie figurale, vision et réalité de l'apparaître (French Edition) [Henry Corbin and the Mundus Imaginalis: Figural Ontology, Vision, and the Reality of Appearing]
Can a reality be present without being material, meaningful without being conceptual, and real without allowing itself to be reduced to imagination? It is around this q…
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AMAZONBookHenry Corbin et la métaphysique du monde imaginal (French Edition) [Henry Corbin and the Metaphysics of the Imaginal World]
What if imagination were not the opposite of the real, but one of the organs by which it is known? In Henry Corbin et la métaphysique du monde imaginal (Henry Corbin an…
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AMAZONBookThe Tradition and Its Heirs: Genealogies of Knowledge and the Politics of Religion in Indonesia
Who has the authority to define Islam in Indonesia—and what happens when religious knowledge becomes entangled with institutions, political power, and social conflict?Th…
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AMAZONBookOrdering Knowledge, Ordering Knowers: Islamic Classifications of the Sciences and the Malay Ecology of Learning
Who decides what counts as knowledge—and who has the authority to decide who truly knows? For more than a millennium, Muslim thinkers did more than classify the science…
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AMAZONBookINDONESIA 2030: The Logic of State Deterioration: Legitimacy Sensors, Silent Disintegration, and the Map of Elite Conflict
Indonesia is not on the verge of collapse. That is precisely what makes the warning signs harder to see.A country can continue to hold elections, pass budgets, expand it…
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AMAZONBookIndonesia 2030
Indonesia is not on the verge of collapse. That is precisely what makes the warning signs harder to see. A country can continue to hold elections, pass budgets, expand …
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AMAZONBookProphetic Social Science: Rebuilding Theory from Within: Fiqh, Critique, and the Corrigibility of a Committed Science
Can a social science be openly committed to moral ends and still remain genuinely scientific? Modern social science is often built around a difficult bargain: describe …
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AMAZONBookJudgement Before the Evidence: A Year of Fault Lines in the Indo-Pacific and Beyond
What happens when strategic decisions must be made before all the evidence is available?In a world defined by simultaneous crises, intelligence analysis rarely enjoys th…
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AMAZONBookKnowledge for Power: Secrecy, Statecraft, and the Practice of Intelligence
What does it mean for a state to know? And how does knowledge become power?Intelligence is often imagined as a hidden world of spies, secret operations, surveillance, an…
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AMAZONBookTHE WAR FOR THE INDONESIAN MIND: Cognitive Warfare, Digital Influence, and the Politics of Perception
What happens when a political crisis becomes a struggle to control not only the streets, but also the meaning of reality itself?In August 2025, public anger over parliam…
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AMAZONBookThe Philosophy of State Intelligence: Epistemology, Cosmology, and the Limits of Secret Knowledge
What can a state truly know—and what remains invisible because of the way it chooses to know?Intelligence agencies are commonly understood as institutions that collect s…
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AMAZONBookFrom Islamisation to Fricativisation: Paradigms of Knowledge in Indonesia’s State Islamic Universities
What happens when an Islamic university brings revelation and modern science under one roof—yet never fully resolves how their different claims to knowledge should relat…
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AMAZONBookAcehnology: Volume IV Identity, the Malay World, and the Contemporary Order in the Study of Aceh
Who are the Acehnese, and how is that identity remade inside a Malay world reshaped by nation-states, markets, migration, and global politics?Acehnology, Volume IV: Iden…
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AMAZONBookThe Chinese Tea Route: Methamphetamine, Maritime Smuggling, and Coastal Lives across the Strait of Malacca
What connects the methamphetamine laboratories of Myanmar’s Shan State to fishing boats landing before dawn on the coast of Aceh? The answer lies across one of the worl…