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SUMMARY:Malaysia's Islamization Programme Gone Full Circle: Comparisons wi
 th Pakistan\, Bangladesh and Indonesia - Dr Farish A. Noor
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CONTACT:Rachel Leow
DESCRIPTION:The entry of religion into politics is not a new phenomenon\, 
 and it has become commonplace in many Muslim-majority countries. Islamisat
 ion can take place from below as well as from above\; in the latter case\,
  states and political elites deliberately choose to inject the discourse o
 f religion into politics and governance as a strategy of regime legitimiza
 tion. However\, two dynamics are at work: discursive and structural. The I
 slamisation of states and societies require both the discursive shift towa
 rds a politics of religion as well as the creation of social structures th
 at can sustain it. Has political Islam become a reality in Malaysia on bot
 h the discursive and structural level? This paper discusses this question 
 through a comparative study of Malaysia with other places where Islam has 
 become part of the political landscape\; in particular\, Pakistan\, India\
 , Bangladesh and Indonesia.\n\n_Farish Noor is a Senior Fellow at the S. R
 ajaratnam School of International Studies\, Singapore. He is the author of
  the most definitive work to date on the history of the Pan-Malaysian Isla
 mic Party (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia\, or PAS) and has conducted research in
 to modern Islamist networks in Indonesia and Pakistan. He is also one of M
 alaysia's most prominent public historians\, and has delivered public lect
 ures on the symbology of Malay material culture\, classical Malay heroes\,
  and the erasure of the radical left from history._
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