The Politics of Malaysia's Islamic resurgence
The Politics of Malaysia's Islamic resurgence
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马来西亚伊斯兰复兴的政治
DOI:
10.1080/01436598808420085
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Ahmed Shabery Cheek
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作者:
J. Sundaram;Ahmed Shabery Cheek
Malaysia's Islamic resurgence has been characterised by three major phases in its development since the early 1970s. Each phase, though in some cases influenced by events on the international scene, is foremost a response to developments within Malaysia's domestic politics. The cumulative impact of such developments, both internally and externally, has been the strengthening of Islamic resurgence and the consolidation of its political influence. Accordingly, the agenda that forms Islamic politics has increasingly come to shape mainstream politics in Malaysia. The beginning of the Islamic revival in the early 1970s can be traced back to a renewed interest in religion, particularly among Muslim Malays educated in the Western secular tradition. The rejection of secular Western-orientated education and Western style modernisation by young Muslim Malays began at a time when governments of Muslim nations began to assert themselves politically, following the first oil price shock of 1973. In the late 1970s, Islamic revival gained increased political momentum through a tacit alliance between the Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement (ABIM) and the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (Pan-Malayan Islamic Party, PAS)—the main Islamic opposition party. Both this development and Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 were to have a most significant impact on the growth of political Islam in Malaysia. In the 1980s, the significance of the Islamic resurgence has come to be recognised explicitly by the government in the form of its Islamisation drive. This was to represent quite a profound and controversial development in a country where non-Muslims constitute almost half the population. Symptomatic of this development was the subsequent rise of the ex-ABiM leader Anwar Ibrahim within the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO—the dominant party in the Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition) and the radical changes which followed in the leadership of the PAS. These developments reflect the almost enigmatic role of contemporary Islamic resurgence in Malaysia and its impact on Malay politics.