Piety and politics Islamism in contemporary Malaysia /

Malaysia, home to some twenty million Muslims, is often held up as a model of a pro-Western Islamic nation. The government of Malaysia, in search of Western investment, does its best to perpetuate this view. But this isn't the whole story. Over the last several decades, Joseph Liow shows, Malay...

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Main Author: Liow, Joseph Chinyong, 1972-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Series:Religion and global politics.
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