Islam in Malaysia

An Entwined History

Khairudin Aljunied (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-092519-2 (ISBN)

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This book surveys the growth and development of Islam in Malaysia from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, investigating how Islam has shaped the social lives, languages, cultures and politics of both Muslims and non-Muslims in one of the most populous Muslim regions in the world. Khairudin Aljunied shows how Muslims in Malaysia built upon the legacy of their pre-Islamic past while benefiting from Islamic ideas, values, and networks to found flourishing states and societies that have played an influential role in a globalizing world. He examines the movement of ideas, peoples, goods, technologies, arts, and cultures across into and out of Malaysia over the centuries.
Interactions between Muslims and the local Malay population began as early as the eighth century, sustained by trade and the agency of Sufi as well as Arab, Indian, Persian, and Chinese scholars and missionaries. Aljunied looks at how Malay states and societies survived under colonial regimes that heightened racial and religious divisions, and how Muslims responded through violence as well as reformist movements. Although there have been tensions and skirmishes between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia, they have learned in the main to co-exist harmoniously, creating a society comprising of a variety of distinct populations. This is the first book to provide a seamless account of the millennium-old venture of Islam in Malaysia.

Dr. Khairudin Aljunied is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. Dr. Aljunied is the author and editor of several books, including Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (2017) and Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World (2018). A specialist on the history of Islam in Southeast Asia, his research covers topics such as religious cosmopolitanism, social movements and intellectual history.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
List of Photographs

Introduction
Part I: Gradualist Islamization
Chapter One Infusing Islam in Connected Societies
Chapter Two Sufis, Sufism and Conversion Narratives
Part II: Populist Islamization
Chapter Three Kerajaan Prosetylism
Chapter Four Women and Other Islamizers
Part III: Reformist Islamization
Chapter Five Islam and Colonialism
Chapter Six Repertoires of Muslim Resistance
Part IV: Triumphalist Islamization
Chapter Seven Constructing a Malay-Triumphalist Islam
Chapter Eight Nationalizing Islam, Islamizing the Nation

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Religion and Global Politics
Zusatzinfo	9 photos
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 160 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-19-092519-1 / 0190925191
ISBN-13	978-0-19-092519-2 / 9780190925192
Zustand	Neuware