Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Saravanamuttu, Johan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135171865
• Artikelnr.: 42981671

Autorenporträt

Johan Saravanamuttu is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He was formerly Professor of Political Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Penang and Visiting Chair in ASEAN and International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is co-editor of New Politics in Malaysia; and co-author of March 8: Eclipsing May 13.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Majority-Minority Muslim Politics and Democracy 2.
Authority and Democracy in Malaysian and Indonesian Islamic Movements 3.
Political Islam and Democracy in the Majority Muslim Country of Indonesia
4. The Authoritarian State and its Link to Political Islam in
Muslim-Majority Malaysia 5. Encounters of Muslim Politics in Malaysia 6.
Missing Lawyer in Thailand: The Fate of Engaged Muslims in Authoritarian
Democracy 7. A Never-ending War and the Struggle for Peace in Southern
Philippines 8. Authoritarian Democracy and the Minority Muslim Polity in
Singapore 9. Ideology and Utopia in the Discourse on Civil Society in
Indonesia and Malaysia