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Negotiating Malay Identities in Singapore
Rizwana Abdul Azeez
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Description for Negotiating Malay Identities in Singapore
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFSL3; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Singapore Malays subscribe to mostly traditional rather than modern interpretations of Islam. Singapore state officials, however, wish to curb the challenges such interpretations bring to the country's political, social, educational and economic domains. Thus, these officials launched a programme to socially engineer modern Muslim identities amongst Singapore Malays in 2003, which is ongoing. Negotiating Muslim Identities documents a variety of ethnographic encounters that point to the power struggles surrounding two basic and very different ways of living. While the Singapore state has gained some successes for its project, it has also faced significant and multiple setbacks. Amongst them, state officials ... Read more
Singapore Malays subscribe to mostly traditional rather than modern interpretations of Islam. Singapore state officials, however, wish to curb the challenges such interpretations bring to the country's political, social, educational and economic domains. Thus, these officials launched a programme to socially engineer modern Muslim identities amongst Singapore Malays in 2003, which is ongoing. Negotiating Muslim Identities documents a variety of ethnographic encounters that point to the power struggles surrounding two basic and very different ways of living. While the Singapore state has gained some successes for its project, it has also faced significant and multiple setbacks. Amongst them, state officials ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196967
SKU
V9781845196967
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About Rizwana Abdul Azeez
Rizwana Abdul Azeez obtained her PhD from Flinders University, Australia in 2012. She was Visiting Research Fellow at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies up to 2014 and has taught Sociology and Islamic cultures in Southeast Asian societies. She is the author of a monograph and various articles on Singapore Malays and Muslims.
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