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dc.contributor.authorSchottmann, Sven A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-04T04:59:35Z
dc.date.available2018-01-04T04:59:35Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1035-7823
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10357823.2011.602663
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/254979
dc.description.abstractUnlike his bourgeois economic nationalism or diplomatic posturing on behalf of the developing world, Mahathir Mohamad's encounter with Islam remains a largely understudied aspect of his 22-year rule of Malaysia (1981–2003). There is a marked reluctance to take seriously his pronouncements on Islam and engage with his representations of what being-Muslim should entail in the modern world. This essay takes the view that Islam, in fact, represents a significant component of the former Malaysian prime minister's political repertoire, and that an analysis of what may be described as “Mahathir's Islam” can provide a compelling alternative account of his momentous premiership. It argues that while Mahathir's engagement with Islam was fraught with contradictions and has produced a number of negative consequences that affect Malaysian society as a whole, his discourse also contained the ingredients of what Bellah and Hammond (1980) have famously described as civil religion. Mahathir's public representations of Islam – in particular, his championing of the individually responsible believer and interpretation of the message to the Prophet Muhammad as a this-worldly and pro-active “theology of progress” – can thus provide religious validation to the cosmopolitanism of the street that has helped underwrite the social peace of multi-religious Malaysia.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAsian Studies Association of Australia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom355
dc.relation.ispartofpageto372
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAsian Studies Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchReligion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode220499
dc.titleThe pillars of "Mahathir's Islam": Mahathir Mohamad on Being-Muslim in the modern world
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSchottmann, Sven


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