Encountering Islam: The Politics of Religious Identities in Southeast Asia

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction — Encountering Islam 3 Hui Yew-Foong Part II: Islam across Borders 2. Religious Elites and the State in Indonesia and Elsewhere: Why Takeovers are so Difficult and Usually Don’t Work 17 M.C. Ricklefs 3. “I was the Guest of Allah”: Modern Hajj Memoirs from Southeast Asia 47 Eric Tagliacozzo 4. The Aurad Muhammadiah Congregation: Modern Transnational Sufism in Southeast Asia 66 Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid Part III: Malaysia 5. Legal-Bureaucratic Islam in Malaysia: Homogenizing and Ringfencing the Muslim Subject 103 Maznah Mohamad vi Contents 6. The Letter of the Law and the Reckoning of Justice among Tamils in Malaysia 133 Andrew Willford 7. Islamization and Ethnicity in Sabah, Malaysia 158 Regina Lim Part IV: Indonesia 8. Natsir and Sukarno: Their Clash over Nationalism, Religion and Democracy, 1928–1958 191 Audrey Kahin 9. Religious Freedom in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of the Ahmadiyah 218 Bernhard Platzdasch 10. Religion and the Politics of Morality: Muslim Women Activists and the Pornography Debate in Indonesia 247 Rachel Rinaldo Part V: Muslim Minorities 11. Malay Muslims and the Thai-Buddhist State: Confrontation, Accommodation and Disengagement 271 Ernesto H. Braam 12. Identifying with Fiction: The Art and Politics of Short Story Writing by Muslims in the Philippines 313 Coeli Barry 13. Issues on Islam and the Muslims in Singapore Post-9/11: An Analysis of the Dominant Perspective 335 Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman Index 377 ...