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13 Octobre 2010
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Parution Irasec : From the Mosque to the Ballot Box
An Introduction to Political Islam in Malaysia
Delphine Allès, Sophie Lemière, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman & Haris Zalkapli
Edité par Sophie Lemière
Carnet de l'Irasec / Occasional Paper n°14
Irasec/S. Rajartnam School of International Studies, Balngkok, 2010
Islamism has been at the forefront of Malaysian politics for the past two decades. The recurrence of religious controversies, from apostasy to the debate on the use of the word "Allah", emphasises the importance of the religious factor on the Malaysian political and social scene. International media and analysts are seeing the rise of a "new phenomenon" or the "resurgence of Islam" in a country where, in fact, Islam has been entrenched in every layer of society for more than a century.
The European empires never imagined that the way they would rule Indonesia, the Philippines or Malaysia and adapt to the "Islamic factor" would in fact be decisive in the emergence of local Islamist movements. Islam catalysed the alignment of Muslim subjects against the ruler and the struggle against the imperialist became a part of their Jihad. In Malaysia, the British government had a long history of struggle against religious and politically motivated insurrections and learned from its experiences and mistakes. Thus, from the late 19th century onwards, a separation between the State and religion was institutionalised and Islam became the domain of expertise and powers of the
Malays: the sultan and the ulema.
Due to the country's history and social patterns, Malaysian Islamist discourse has particularities and exists in both the political and the public arenas. Malaysia is a secular country, but article 3 of the constitution presents Islam as the religion of the federation provisioning the space for an Islamic legal system. Major ambiguities lay in the Malaysian institutional, political and legal systems being neither completely secular nor entirely Islamic. In a context where ethnic boundaries are clearly defined and the concept of national identity remains a
myth, religion is seen as a marker of identity and has been propelled to the forefront of political and social debates.
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