Religion, race and national identity in Malaysian society
This paper discuses the issue of religion, ethnicity and national identity with focus specifically on the experience of Islam in a multi-ethnic and multi religious Malaysian state.The main thrust of the paper is that religion plays a very important role in the national identity of a nation and the M...
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Islamic Cultural Centre, London
2014
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| Online Access: | http://repo.uum.edu.my/18838/ http://www.iccuk.org/downloads/IQ_Contents_58-4b.pdf |
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| Institution: | Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| Summary: | This paper discuses the issue of religion, ethnicity and national identity with focus specifically on the experience of Islam in a multi-ethnic and multi religious Malaysian state.The main thrust of the paper is that religion plays a very important role in the national identity of a nation and the Malaysian nation despite its multi-religious nature is no exception to this rule.The paper look f the debate about the identification of Malaysia as an Islamic state.Using historical and analytical, methods, this paper establishes that every analysis historical, politically, and socially support this view. |
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