Islamization and Activism in Malaysia

Islamization and Activism in Malaysia
Author: Julian C. H. Lee
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814279021

Islamization and Activism in Malaysia examines aspects of the increasing political and social profile of Islam in Malaysia and describes how different kinds of activists in Malaysia have sought to protect fundamental liberties and to improve the state of democracy in Malaysia. In particular, focus is paid to activists who engage with electoral process, the law and the public sphere, and in particular, to movements that cut across or combine these realms of action. Spanning the period of the Prime Ministership of Abdullah Badawi, Julian C. H. Lee's grounded analysis examines the most important issues of that period including the freedom of religion case of Lina Joy, the Islamic state debate, and events surrounding the 8 March 2008 general elections.

How is Global Dialogue Possible?

How is Global Dialogue Possible?
Author: Johanna Seibt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110385589

Intercultural dialogue is often invoked in vague reference to a method that can build cross-cultural understanding and facilitate global policy-making. This book clarifies the theoretical foundations of intercultural dialogue and demonstrates the practical significance of intercultural value inquiry, combining the perspectives of philosophy, conflict research, religious studies, and education.

Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century

Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century
Author: Tauseef Ahmad Parray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9354973051

This book starts with the prevailing idea of a conflicting relationship between Islam and the Western concept of democracy, both in theory and in practice. With this backdrop, the author addresses the crucial question—Is Islam compatible with democracy? The book offers very useful discussions in framing the contemporary debates surrounding Islam and democracy, treads through diverse theoretical Islamic texts like the ‘Quran’ and ‘Sunnah’, discusses the historical evolution of the concept of Shura—the primary source of democratic ethics in Islam, provides an assessment of the views and visions of some selected Muslim scholars (from 19th to 21st centuries) on Islam–democracy compatibility, and examines the elements of compatibility between Islam and democracy without ignoring the basic differences that exist between the Western approach to democracy and Islamic political thought.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:2

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:2
Author: Sidek Bin Baba, Mohamad Johdi Salleh, Tareq M. Zayed, Ridwan Harris
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre:
ISBN:

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

The Arab Uprisings and Malaysia’s Islamist Movements

The Arab Uprisings and Malaysia’s Islamist Movements
Author: Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000754057

This book examines the attitude of Malaysia’s Islamist movements – The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS); The National Trust Party (AMANAH); The Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) and the Malaysian Muslim Solidarity Front (ISMA) – towards the Arab Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. The book analyses the perceptions of Islamist movement activists, politicians and members in Malaysia towards the 2011 Arab Uprisings, popularly known as the ‘Arab Spring’. A questionnaire based-survey as well as in-depth interviews with activists and leaders ranging from individuals in opposing political parties (PAS and AMANAH) to non-government Islamist organisations (ABIM and ISMA) informs the findings of the book. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, the author analyses how the events impacted the activism, political approach and attitudes of the members of Islamic movements towards the issues of regime change, civil disobedience, political revolution, democracy, Islamism and political stability. The book demonstrates that Malaysian Islamists are mainly in support of free and democratic elections as a medium for political change as opposed to overthrowing the previous BN-led regime via civil disobedience, street demonstration or ‘revolution’. A novel approach in examining the connections between Islamic movements in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Politics, History, Social Movements, Political Islam, Middle Eastern Studies and Southeast Asian Studies.

Feminist Insiders-Outsiders

Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
Author: Ibrahim Olatunde Uthman
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443815675

This book examines different brand of women’s feminist struggles and focuses on the struggles of Muslim women who are insiders in the Islamic Movement, as represented in Nigerian Muslim women’s Islamic activism. Drawing on different secular-Islamic Gender feminist theoretical frameworks, the book closely analyses Islamic texts and these Muslim women brand of feminism, which reflect the effects of their strong Islamic commitment culture on their gender relations, postulations and feminist struggles in general. It argues that the Islamic texts portray the pre-modern basis of these Muslim women Islamic feminism—born in the Prophetic era before the secular feminist movement, contrary to the common notion of the Islamic endorsement of Muslim women stereotypical backwardness, domestication and patriarchal domination. This book demonstrates how Muslim women writers have used Islamic organizations to work for, and contribute to, feminist changes.

Islam Beyond Borders

Islam Beyond Borders
Author: James Piscatori
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108481256

Revealing how the one community of the faith in the Qur'an, the umma, affects competing politics of identity in the Muslim world.