Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415563925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Johan Saravanamuttu

Opis

Southeast Asia manifests some of the most interesting, non-violent as well as conflictual elements of Islamic social and political life in the world. 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 addresses the majority and minority situations of Muslims within both democratic and authoritarian politics. It shows, for example, how in Muslim majority Indonesia and Malaysia, political Islam directly engages with procedural democracy; in Muslim minority Thailand and the Philippines, it has taken a violent route; and in Muslim minority Singapore, it has been successfully managed through civil and electoral politics. By exploring such nuances, variations, comparisons and linkages among Muslim majority and minority countries, this book deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of Muslim politics in the region as a whole.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.