Muslim Professional Associations And Politics In Southeast Asia

Author : R Michael Feener,Terenjit Sevea
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812309235

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Islamic Connections by R Michael Feener,Terenjit Sevea Pdf

Well over half of the world's Muslim population lives in Asia. Over the centuries, a rich constellation of Muslim cultures developed there and the region is currently home to some of the most dynamic and important developments in contemporary Islam. Despite this, the internal dynamics of Muslim societies in Asia do not often receive commensurate attention in international Islamic Studies scholarship. This volume brings together the work of an interdisciplinary group of scholars discussing various aspects of the complex relationships between the Muslim communities of South and Southeast Asia. With their respective contributions covering points and patterns of interaction from the medieval to the contemporary periods, they attempt to map new trajectories for understanding the ways in which these two crucial areas have developed in relation to each other, as well as in the broader contexts of both world history and the current age of globalization.

Author : Johan Saravanamuttu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135171872

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Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia by Johan Saravanamuttu Pdf

This book examines the ways in which Muslim politics in Southeast Asia has greatly impacted democratic practice and contributed to its practical and discursive development. It provides comparisons and linkages amongst Muslim-majority and -minority countries, to aid understanding of the phenomenon of Muslim politics in the region as a whole.

Author : Yew-Foong Hui
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789814379922

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Encountering Islam by Yew-Foong Hui Pdf

This volume seeks to introduce and deepen the understanding of Islam and its role in politics as encountered in different national and transnational contexts in Southeast Asia, eschewing the neo-orientalist approach that has informed public discourse in recent years. In Encountering Islam, the book lingers beyond the summary moment and reflects on the multiple impressions, suppressions and repressions, whether coherent or incoherent, associated with Islam as a socio-political force in public life. To this end, it is not adequate simply to represent the divergent identities associated with Islam in Southeast Asia, whether embedded in state-endorsed orthodoxy or Islamic movements that contest such orthodoxy. It is also important to examine religious minorities in political contexts where Islam is dominant and Muslim communities in national contexts where they are minorities. By situating these religious identities within their larger socio-political contexts, this volume seeks to provide a more holistic understanding of what is encountered as Islam in Southeast Asia.

Author : K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9812302832

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Islam in Southeast Asia by K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali Pdf

Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Author : K. Miichi,O. Farouk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137436818

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Southeast Asian Muslims in the Era of Globalization by K. Miichi,O. Farouk Pdf

This volume investigates the appropriate position of Islam and opposing perceptions of Muslims in Southeast Asia. The contributors examine how Southeast Asian Muslims respond to globalization in their particular regional, national and local settings, and suggest global solutions for key local issues.

Author : Mitsuo Nakamura,Sharon Siddique,Omar Farouk Bajunid
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812301116

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Islam & Civil Society in Southeast Asia by Mitsuo Nakamura,Sharon Siddique,Omar Farouk Bajunid Pdf

The Islamic world, often regarded as an anathema to civil society, in fact has rich traditions of associational life pursuing “common good”. These religious resources have been reinterpreted for the enhancement of civic virtues and participatory politics in contemporary context, that is, democratization. Such pioneering efforts have been clearly observable in Muslim Southeast Asia. In November 1999, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation invited ten Muslim activists and scholars from the region to Japan for exchanging views and experiences among themselves and with Japanese participants. Here their papers and discussions are compiled into a book, Islam and Civil Society in Southeast Asia.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780824863463

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Making Modern Muslims by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

When students from a Muslim boarding school were convicted for the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali, Islamic schools in Southeast Asia became the focus of intense international scrutiny. Some analysts have warned that these schools are being turned into platforms for violent jihadism. Making Modern Muslims is the first book to look comparatively at Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. Based on a two-year research project by leading scholars of Southeast Asian Islam, the book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines. The studies demonstrate that the great majority of schools have nothing to do with violence but are undergoing changes that have far-reaching implications for democracy, gender relations, pluralism, and citizenship. Making Modern Muslims offers an important reassessment of Muslim culture and politics in Southeast Asia and provides insights into the changing nature of state-society relations from the late colonial period to the present. It allows us to better appreciate the astonishing dynamism of Islamization in Southeast Asia and the struggle for Muslim hearts and minds taking place today. Timely and readable, this volume will be of great interest to teachers and specialists of Islam and Southeast Asia as well as the general reader seeking to understand the great transformations at work in the Muslim world. Contributors: Esmael A. Abdula, Bjørn Atle Blengsli, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Robert W. Hefner, Richard G. Kraince, Thomas M. McKenna.

Author : Robert W. Hefner,Patricia Horvatich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0824819578

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Islam in an Era of Nation-States by Robert W. Hefner,Patricia Horvatich Pdf

The renewal of the Muslim faith, which has occurred not only in Asia but in other parts of the world, has prompted warnings of an imminent "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West. Islam in an Era of Nation-States examines the history, politics, and meanings of this resurgence in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and explores its implications for Southeast Asia, the larger Muslim world, and the West. This volume will be of interest to students of Islam, Southeast Asian history, and the anthropology of religion. In examining the politics and meanings of Islamic resurgence, it will also speak to political scientists, religious scholars, and others concerned with culture and politics in the late modern era.

Author : Hussin Mutalib
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812307583

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Islam in Southeast Asia by Hussin Mutalib Pdf

Islam is a major religion in Southeast Asia, with Indonesian Muslims comprising the largest Muslim population in the world. Events and developments since 11 September 2001 have added greater attention to Islam and its adherents in this part of the world. This general survey of Islam in Southeast Asia is intended to inform, explain and update readers about the more significant aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia, then and now. These include the following: the geographical origins and sources by which the faith spread in this region; the social, economic and political profiles of the Muslim communities; relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and between Muslims and the State; the strands and trends that shapes the role of Islam and the Muslims in the national body politic; and the challenges confronting Muslims in confronting the vicissitudes of their lives in this era of rapid change, characterized by modernization, capitalism, secularization and globalization. The discussion will begin with an overview of the broad picture of Islam and the Muslims in the region as a whole, covering both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries. This will be followed by case-study analysis of Islam and the Muslims in individual countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Given the difficulty of writing on such a complex and contentious topic, this book attempts to present the subject matter in a manner that is sufficiently objective to scholars and yet simple and accessible enough to be readily understood by ordinary readers.

Author : Lee Hock Guan
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814517423

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Civil Society in Southeast Asia by Lee Hock Guan Pdf

What is the relevance of civil society to people empowerment, effective governance, and deepening democracy? This book addresses this question by examining the activities and public participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the areas of religion, ethnicity, gender and the environment. Examples are taken from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. State regimes' attempts to co-opt the concept or reject it as alien to "e;Asian values"e; have apparently not turned out as expected. This is evident from the fact that many Southeast Asian citizens are inspired by the civil society concept and now engage in public discourse and participation. The experience of civil society in Southeast Asia shows that its impact -- or lack of impact -- on democratization and democracy depends on a variety of factors not only within civil society itself, but also within the state.

Author : Greg Fealy,Virginia Matheson Hooker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064693487

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Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia by Greg Fealy,Virginia Matheson Hooker Pdf

In an era when Islam ostensibly lies at the heart of a volatile nexus of a global campaign of war on terrorism, simplistic notions and dangerous misunderstandings about the cultures and nature of Southeast Asian Islam, in all its variants, are used to inform and justify policies.

Author : Mike Millard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317466857

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Jihad in Paradise: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia by Mike Millard Pdf

Written in an accessible, journalistic style, Jihad in Paradise focuses on Southeast Asia's struggle to deal with Islamic extremists and terrorism at the hands of Jemah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm. Although the book gives particular attention to Singapore's attempts to deal with these issues, the story extends into Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. All of these countries have significant Muslim populations, and recent violent events have affected the business environment, tourism, and the region's tradition of religious tolerance. The author draws on personal interviews with experts in the field as well as key political and religious figures in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, including Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Minister for Muslim Affairs Jaacoub Ibrahim, and expelled Muslim dissident Zulfikar Mohamad Sharif. Millard examines the Bali bombing, Malaysia's conservative Islamic party PAS, the Malaysian province of Kelantan which is a Muslim political hotbed, Abu Saayaf of the Philippines, and Fateha.com and the use of the Internet. He also provides a glimpse of how Singapore, the region's most developed nation, has engineered its society in order to impose a degree of racial and religious tolerance.

Author : Taufik Abdullah,Sharon Siddique
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038239369

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Islam and Society in Southeast Asia by Taufik Abdullah,Sharon Siddique Pdf

Author : Syed Muhammad Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000545043

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Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia by Syed Muhammad Khairudin Aljunied Pdf

This handbook explores the ways in which Islam, as one of the fastest growing religions, has become a global faith for both Muslims and non-Muslims in Southeast Asia with its universality, inclusivity, and shared features with other Islamic expressions and manifestations. It offers an up-to-date, wide-ranging, comprehensive, concise, and readable introduction to the field of Islam in Southeast Asia. With specific themes of pertinent contemporary relevance, the contributions by experts in the field provide fresh insights into the roles of states, societies, scholars, social movements, political parties, economic institutions, sacred sites, and other forces that structured the faith over many centuries. The handbook is structured in three parts: Muslim Global Circulations Marginal Narratives Refashioning Pieties This handbook stands out as a single and synergistic reference work that explores the ebb and flow of Islam seeking to decenter many existing assumptions about it in Southeast Asia. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and policymakers working on Islam, Muslims, and their interactions with other communities in a plural setting.

Author : Max Gross
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1508682232

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A Muslim Archipelago: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia by Max Gross Pdf

Author and former Dean of the School of Intelligence Studies at the Joint Military Intelligence College Dr. Max Gross's purpose is to use history to explain today's Islamic insurgencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines and to offer perspectives for the future. Muslim Archipalego's unique contribution is that it brings together in one reference a mass of information on the insurgencies in Southeast Asia. The country accounts are detailed and thorough as to events, organizations, dates, and participants. This work is illuminated by the author's more than three decades of service within the national Intelligence Community. His regional expertise often has been applied to special assessments for the Community. With a knowledge of Islam unparalleled among his peers and an unquenchable thirst for determining how the goals of this religion might play out in areas far from the focus of most policymakers' current attention, the author has made the most of this opportunity to acquaint the Intelligence Community and a broader readership with a strategic appreciation of a region in the throes of reconciling secular and religious forces.