<![CDATA[The historiography of Islam in the Nusantara is a field of study that continues to evolve in tandem with shifts in the historical paradigm and growing interest in the history of Islam in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the writing of the historiography of Islam in the Nusantara still faces various challenges, such as the dominance of colonial perspectives, limited use of local sources, and the suboptimal application of interdisciplinary approaches. This study aims to analyze the dynamics of the development of the historiography of Islam in the Nusantara, identify the various problems it faces, and formulate directions for its development from a critical historical perspective. This study employs a qualitative approach using library research through a historical approach. Research data were obtained from various books, scholarly articles, and relevant documents, and were then analyzed using content analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that the historiography of Islam in the Nusantara has evolved through four main phases: traditional, colonial, national, and contemporary. Each phase reflects a shift in the orientation of historical writing, ranging from narratives of a legitimizing nature to the development of a more critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary historiography. This study also found that the main challenges facing the historiography of Islam in the Nusantara include the dominance of colonial perspectives, the limited use of local manuscripts, the scarcity of social and intellectual history studies, and the need to integrate various academic disciplines into historical research. As a conceptual contribution, this study offers an integrative historiographical approach that combines historiographical criticism, the use of local sources, an interdisciplinary approach, transnational historical studies, and the use of digital technology as a direction for the development of a more comprehensive, objective, and contextual historiography of Islam in the Nusantara.]]>
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