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From the Mosque to the Ballot Box: An Introduction to Political Islam in Malaysia | The Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) & S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), 2010
In these referenced papers from IRASEC, Bangkok, four specialists consider many aspects of political Islam in contemporary Malaysia. The first study is on the religious dimension of Malaysia's international integration. Part 2 explores the Dakwah, or Islamic revival...
Allah Molotov: Les dérives d’une controverse linguistique en Malaisie
Entre flagellation et exclusion: le sort des “hérétiques musulmans” de Malaisie
Etre Hindou en Malaisie
Genesis and Development of a “non-Partisan” Political Actor: the Formation of the Jama’ah Islah Malaysia (JIM) and its Roots in Western Europe | Al-Jami‘ah, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2009
This chapter looks at the genesis and development of the Jama’ah Islah Malaysia (JIM), a modernist-reformist Islamist organisation that today has played a vital and visible role in the political landscape of Malaysian politics. Little is known about the early genesis...
Apostasy and Islamic Civil Society in Malaysia | ISIM Review 20, Autumn 2007
In Malaysia, legal definitions of the religious category “Muslim” and ethnic category “Malay” imply each other. Consequently, Muslims who have renounced Islam find themselves in an abyssal legal zone. The legal intricacies and the media representations surrounding...