Deconstructing political Islam in Malaysia : UMNO's response to PAS' religio-political dialectic

• Main Author: Liow, Joseph Chin Yong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia::Malaysia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91489; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4447
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The politicisation of Islam has become a key feature of the Malaysian political terrain in recent years, and has found dominant expression in the so-called "Islamisation race" between UMNO and PAS. This paper studies the religio-political dialectics and responses that continue to define UM...