A National Day for Singaporean Muslims : a social history of the Maulid celebrations in Singapore pre-1964

• Main Author: Muhammad Abbas Abdul Azees Karim
• Other Authors: Faizah Binte Zakaria
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155954
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis argues that the localization of the Maulid procession in Singapore enabled the Muslim community to forge a unified identity and build a new tradition that re-established ties that were severed from a “suitable historic past,” following the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate. The Ottoman Calip...