eXPLoRation Of MiNangkabau

ASsAlamulaikum n very good day..........interest in adat perpatih make me interst to post about Minangkabau...hope you all enjoy about Minangkabau. Minangkabau ethnic group that known as Minang is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in indonesia. Their culture is matrinelial, with property and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men . Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra, while about 3 million more are scattered throughout many Indonesian and Malay peninsular cities and towns in Malaysia such as Negeri Sembilan and Naning.

The Minangkabau are strongly islamic but also follow their ethnic traditions that called adat. The Minangkabau adat was derived from animist beliefs before the arrival of Islam, and remnants of animist beliefs still exist even among some practicing Muslims. The present relationship between Islam and adat is described in the saying "tradition [adat] founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur'an

Their West Sumatran homelands were the location of the PADRI war from 1821 to 1837.

by:aizat akmal 5jujur