Editing Peranakan Chinese (section)

====Islam====
In Indonesia, Peranakan<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jacqueline Knorr|title=Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia|date=15 March 2014|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-78238-269-0|page=71}}</ref>  referred to all Indonesian Chinese who had converted to Islam up until the 19th century. This indicated the importance of Islamic identity as a "criterion of indigenization." Later, Peranakan referred to all Indonesian Chinese born in the country, including those of descendants of mixed race unions.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jacqueline Knorr|title=Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia|date=15 March 2014|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-78238-269-0|page=135}}</ref> Large numbers of Peranakans, many from [[Fujian]] having prior experience with foreign Muslims who had a dominant position in that provinces most important seaport, adopted Islam in Java, strongly Muslim areas of Indonesia,<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Reid|editor1-first=Anthony|editor2-last=Alilunas-Rodgers|editor2-first=Kristine|title=Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast China and the Chinese|year=1996|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2446-4|page=74|edition=illustrated, reprint}}</ref> and Malaysia.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Radcliffe|editor1-first=Sarah|title=Culture and Development in a Globalizing World: Geographies, Actors and Paradigms|date=27 September 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-27458-1|pages=141–2|quote=A large number of Chinese settlers were converted to Islam. Having come largely from Fujian, they not only found it advantageous to adopt the predominant religion of the Javanese port towns, but in fact were familiar with the role of Islam in Fujian's trade. In [[Quanzhou]], Fujian's most important seaport by the late thirteenth century, both trade and administration were dominated by foreign Muslims and an Islamic diaspora promoted trade with the rest of Asia.}}</ref> As in the case of the Peranakans in [[Cirebon]], this conversion process occurred over several centuries<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Tan|editor1-first=Chee-Beng|title=Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora|date=11 February 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-23096-7|page=348}}</ref> and was even recorded before the Dutch seized [[Jakarta]].<ref name="Berghahn Books">{{cite book|author1=Jacqueline Knorr|title=Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia|date=15 March 2014|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-78238-269-0|page=137}}</ref> Many of these Peranakans in Indonesia who converted to Islam would marry into aristocratic dynasties.<ref name="Berghahn Books"/> One organisation of Indonesian Peranakan Muslims is the ''Persatuan Islam Tionghoa Indonesia'' (Association of Indonesian Chinese Muslims), which was formed in 1936 in [[Medan]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Leo Suryadinata|title=Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-3055-03-2|page=256}}</ref> Some prominent Peranakan Muslims include the Indonesians Junus Jahja,<ref>{{cite book|author1=Leo Suryadinata|title=Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-3055-03-2|page=46}}</ref> Abdul Karim Oei Tjeng Hien<ref>{{cite book|author1=Leo Suryadinata|title=Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-3055-03-2|pages=51–2}}</ref> and Tjio Wie Tay<ref>{{cite book|author1=Leo Suryadinata|title=Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-3055-03-2|pages=105–6}}</ref> and from [[Patani (historical region)|Pattani]], the Peranakan convert to Islam, Datu Seri Nara, who according to Wybrand of Warwijck was the most important commercial and military figure in [[Patani (historical region)|Pattani]] in 1602.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Montesano|editor1-first=Michael John|editor2-last=Jory|editor2-first=Patrick|title=Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on the Plural Peninsula|year=2008|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-9971-69-411-1|page=35|edition=reprint}}</ref>