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Race, Religion, and the 'Indian Muslim' Predicament in Singapore (Hardcover)
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Race, Religion, and the 'Indian Muslim' Predicament in Singapore (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia
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Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's
otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and
historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have
received little attention by scholarship and have also felt
side-lined by Singapore's Malay-dominated Muslim institutions.
Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian
Muslims and access to religious services have intensified, while
there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak
for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and
contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and
examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates.
Despite considerable differences existing within the putative
Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is
surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of
ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among
Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of 'culture' and 'race' in
debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and
history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and
the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim
difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge
from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of
race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore.
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