Singapore Malays: Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-StateThe Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the 'Malay Muslim story' in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social mobility, economy, leadership, and freedom of religious expression. The book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Muslims in Singapore, and the politics of a Malay-Muslim minority in a global city-state. It is of interest to researchers and students in the field of Singaporean studies, Southeast Asian Studies and Islam in Asia. |
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Page 4
... concerns about their lack of integration with mainstream body politic – that they are lagging behind fellow ethnic Singaporeans. The above problems and grievances aside, what essentially is the 'Malay plight' or the 'Malay problem'? It ...
... concerns about their lack of integration with mainstream body politic – that they are lagging behind fellow ethnic Singaporeans. The above problems and grievances aside, what essentially is the 'Malay plight' or the 'Malay problem'? It ...
Page 5
... concerns about Malay economic backwardness, and other social and medical illnesses inundating the community. Obviously, being a small ethnic minority in a multiracial and prosperous, global city adds to the problem. For perspective, the ...
... concerns about Malay economic backwardness, and other social and medical illnesses inundating the community. Obviously, being a small ethnic minority in a multiracial and prosperous, global city adds to the problem. For perspective, the ...
Page 6
... concerns.lu By 2000, the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) still described the Malay-Muslim community as traversing along the 'fringe of Singapore society', with its chairman, Alami Musa, lamenting that the community 'has not ...
... concerns.lu By 2000, the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) still described the Malay-Muslim community as traversing along the 'fringe of Singapore society', with its chairman, Alami Musa, lamenting that the community 'has not ...
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... concern, of none other than the founding father of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, as recently as September 2011. At the much-publicized 'Singapore Global Dialogue', he remarked: 'If you have fast growth and the growth is confined only ...
... concern, of none other than the founding father of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, as recently as September 2011. At the much-publicized 'Singapore Global Dialogue', he remarked: 'If you have fast growth and the growth is confined only ...
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... concerned Malay professionals, in a difficult political environment where open dissent was not easily tolerated, to ... concerns and grievances, which in the past even some non-Malay scholars and 'Singapore observers' have encouraged ...
... concerned Malay professionals, in a difficult political environment where open dissent was not easily tolerated, to ... concerns and grievances, which in the past even some non-Malay scholars and 'Singapore observers' have encouraged ...
Contents
PART II The Malay plight examined | 43 |
PART III Sources of the Malay plight | 97 |
what is to be done? | 127 |
Hussin Mutalib books articles talks seminars and conferences 19862010 | 154 |
StateMalay tensions since the 1980s a sample | 157 |
ethnic preferences in the resale market for HDB flats | 158 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 190 |
Index | 201 |
Other editions - View all
Singapore Malays: Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-state Hussin Mutalib Limited preview - 2012 |
Singapore Malays: Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-State Hussin Mutalib No preview available - 2014 |
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Abdullah Aljunied AMLA Available online Berita Harian Berita Minggu British cent challenges Chinese citizens city-state community’s concerns cultural decades earlier economic Election electoral elite ethnic groups ethnic minority ethno-religious global Goh Chok Tong government’s highlighted Hussin Mutalib Indian indigenous Indonesia institutions Islamic issues January Lee Hsien Loong Lee Kuan Yew Lee’s madrasah majority Malay community Malay language Malay leadership Malay minority Malay plight Malay political Malay problem Malay progress Malay students Malay world Malay/Muslim community Malaysia Malaysian Malay managing Melayu Mendaki meritocracy Minister Minister-in-charge of Muslim mosques MUIS multicultural multiracial Muslim Muslim Affairs nation-building non-Malays official PAP government PAP Malay MPs PAP’s party Pergas PM Goh PM Lee population present writer religious Republic Republic’s Malays role scholars schools secular seminars September Shari’ah Singapore Malays Singapore Muslims Singapore’s social society socio-economic Southeast Asia state’s Statistics Straits Sultan tion Today tudung Yaacob Yaacob Ibrahim