RELASI INTELEKTUAL MINANGKABAU DENGAN MESIR AWAL ABAD XX

Egypt was the initiator of modernist Islam in the early twentieth century. The euphoria of this wave got to Minangkabau. The alteration center of Islamic studies had shifted the interest of previously oriented to Mecca. This process of gradual displacement increased interrelational thought strongly. Social interaction and various similarities in facing the West as a challenges fostered the spirit of Islamic revitaliton which came from Egypt. The awakening flowed into Minang lands. The offering of the concepts of Egyptian modernism then aroused the fire of modernization of intellectualism in Minangkabau. In addition, in the early twentieth century, Minangkabau youth dominated the number of students from Dutch East Indies. Majority of them became reformers upon their return to Minangkabau.