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Minangkabau people (Minangkabau: Urang Minang, Indonesian: Suku Minang, Jawi:مينڠكاباو), also known as Minang is an ethnic group indigenous to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. Their culture is both matrilineal and patriarchal, with property and land passing down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs are the responsibility of men (although some women also play important roles in these areas. This custom is called Adat perpatih in Malaysia and Lareh Bodi Caniago in Indonesia. Today 4 million Minangs live in West Sumatra, while about 4 million more are scattered throughout many Indonesian and Malay peninsular cities and towns. The Minangkabau are famous for their dedication to education, as well the widespread diaspora of their men throughout southeast Asia, the result being that Minangs have been disproportionately successful in gaining positions of economic and political power throughout the region. The co-founder of the Republic of Indonesia, Mohammad Hatta, was a Minang, as were the first President of Singapore, Yusof bin Ishak, and the first Supreme Head of State of Malaysia or Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya of the Federation of Malaya,Tuanku Abdul Rahman. The Minangkabau are strongly Islamic, but also follow their ethnic traditions, or ''adat''. The Minangkabau ''adat'' was derived from animist and Hindu-Buddhist beliefs before the arrival of Islam, and remnants of animist beliefs still exist even among some practising Muslims. The present relationship between Islam and ''adat'' is described in the saying "tradition () founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur'an" (''adat basandi syara', syara' basandi Kitabullah''). As one of the world's most populous (and politically and economically influential) matrilineal ethnicity, Minangkabau gender dynamics have been extensively studied by anthropologists. The ''adat'' (Minangkabau: ''Adaik'') traditions have allowed Minangkabau women to hold a relatively advantageous position in their society compared to most patriarchal societies, as most property and other economic assets pass though female lines. With the arrival of the Dutch and other Muslim groups, the traditions have been gradually influenced by both western and conservative Islamic thought. Their West Sumatran homelands were the location of the Padri War from 1821 to 1837. ==Etymology== (詳細はThe roofline of traditional houses in West Sumatra, called Rumah Gadang (Minangkabau, "big house"), curve upward from the middle and end in points, in imitation of the water buffalo's upward-curving horns. The first mention of the name Minangkabau as Minangkabwa, is in the 1365 Majapahit court poem, the Desawarnana (or Nagarakrtagama) composed by Mpu Prapanca.〔Robson, S. O., (1995), ''Desawarnana (Nagarakrtagama) by Mpu Prapanca'', ed. and trans, Leiden: KITLV Press.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minangkabau people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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