(d. 1364), Javanese military leader. The Hindu-Javanese kingdom of Majapahit, established in 1293 by the East Javanese king Vijaya (d. 1328), experienced its golden age in the fourteenth century CE, owing to the military prowess and political cunning...

Gajah Mada (d. circa 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih) of the Majapahit Empire, credited with bringing the empire to its peak of glory. He is said[Please...

Ratih Hardjono is living in Jakarta with husband Fajrul Falaakh, who is a constitutional lawyer and vice dean of law at Gajah Mada University. He's a legal reformer, which makes him almost as popular with the military as Ratih is. She spent six months...

Jaroslav Stetkevych's Muhammad and the Golden Bough explores the "mythic" traces surviving in an episode in the life of the Prophet Muhammad; much of the book's readership will applaud wholeheartedly its eclectic "reconstruction" of this Arabian myth. But the significance of the monograph may...