Islam in Southeast Asia: Political, Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century

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K S Nathan, Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005 - 362 pagini
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. 

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The Advent and Growth of Islam in the Philippines
45
The Development and Impact of Islamic Economic
82
Moderate Political Islam and Governance
103
Is It Always Islam versus Civil Society?
135
Islamization Civil Society and Religious Minorities
162
Reading Equality and Patriarchy
191
MODERNIZATION GLOBALIZATION
207
The Malaysian Constitution the Islamic State
256
Origins Definition and Salient Attributes
278
September 11 and Islamic Militancy
301
The Impact of September 11 on Islam in Southeast Asia
325
Addressing the Challenge of Political Islam
347
Note on Contributors
355
About the Editors 362
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Pagina 192 - O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you.
Pagina 237 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern ; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Pagina 232 - Globalisation can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.
Pagina 251 - Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
Pagina 291 - The republican form of government is not only thoroughly consistent with the spirit of Islam, but has also become a necessity in view of the new forces that are set free in the world of Islam.
Pagina 200 - Ye are never able to be fair and just as between women, even if it is your ardent desire.
Pagina 114 - That the Sultan receive and provide a suitable residence for a British Officer to be called Resident, who shall be accredited to his Court, and whose advice must be asked and acted upon on all questions other than those touching Malay Religion and Custom.
Pagina 221 - ... intellectually so strongly interested in the destruction and transformation of a given condition of society that they unwittingly see only those elements in the situation which tend to negate it. Their thinking is incapable of correctly diagnosing an existing condition of society. They are not at all concerned with what really exists ; rather in their thinking they already seek to change the situation that exists. Their thought is never a diagnosis of the situation ; it can be used only as a...

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• K S Nathan is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.


• Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Professor of Islamic law and jurisprudence at the International Islamic University Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. 

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