Download or read book Mahathir s Islam written by Sven Schottmann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahathir Mohamad’s legacy as Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister (1981–2003) is deeply controversial. His engagement with Islam, the religion of just over half Malaysia’s population, has often been dismissed as partisan maneuvering. Yet his willingness to countenance a more prominent place for Islam in government and society is what distinguished him from other modernist politicians, and his instinct to set Malaysian politics against the backdrop of the wider Muslim world was politically astute. Author Sven Schottmann argues that Mahathir’s transformative effect on Malaysia can only be fully appreciated if we also take him seriously as one of the postcolonial Muslim world’s most significant political thought leaders. Schottmann sees Mahathir’s representations of Islam as a relatively coherent discourse that can legitimately be described as “Mahathir’s Islam.” This discourse contains Mahathir’s assessment of the economic, political, and sociocultural problems facing the contemporary Muslim world and the range of solutions and corrective measures that he proposed Muslims should adopt. His ideas are fraught with flaws and contradictions. On the one hand, he emphasized the individualistic, egalitarian, pluralistic, democratic, and dynamic qualities of Islam. On the other, his government enacted legislation and acquiesced in the activities of religious bodies that curtailed religious freedoms of both Muslims and non-Muslims. His ideas contributed to Malaysia’s worsening state of interethnic relations, yet his insistence that every Muslim had the right to speak for Islam may have, paradoxically, prepared the ground for a future democratization of Malaysian politics. Mahathir’s Islam is based on rigorous analysis of Mahathir’s speeches, interviews, and writings, which the author is able to link to parallel processes elsewhere in the Muslim world—Indonesia, the Middle East, Pakistan, Turkey, and diaspora communities in the West. Mahathir’s Islamic discourse, Schottmann suggests, must be read against the wider late twentieth-century resurgence of religion in general, and the post-1970s Islamic revival in particular. Balanced in approach and engagingly written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, religious studies, and others interested in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, or Mahathir himself.
Download or read book Terrorism and the Real Issues written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad Prime Minister of Malaysia Globalisation and the new realities written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Dr Mahathir Mohamad written by Kamila Ghazali and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam Knowledge and Other Affairs written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected speeches delivered through 2004 by Mahathir Mohamad, a former prime minister of Malaysia.
Download or read book The Challenge written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradoxes of Mahathirism written by Boo Teik Khoo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1981, is one of Asia's most successful politicians. Once feared by some as an ideologue of state intervention to restructure Malaysian society, Mahathir is now admired by many for his vision of industrializing his nation into Asia's 'fifth tiger.' Paradoxes of Mahathirism is the first full-length scholarly examination of the enigma of Mahathir. As a study of political ideology, it explores Mahathir's ideas on nationalism, capitalism, Islam, populism, and authoritarianism--the core of Mahathirism. Within the context of Malaysia's recent political history, it charts the evolution of Mahathir's complex world-view to reveal paradoxes, alternating patterns of consistency and contradiction, which help us understand his politics, policies, and personality.
Download or read book The Role of Islam in the Modern State a Speech by Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the World Economic Forum Special Session in New York on February 3 2002 Islam Terrorism and Malaysia s Response a Speech by Mahathir Bin Mohamad at the Asia Society Dinner in New York on February 4 2002 written by Mahathir Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mahathir the Secret of the Malaysian Success written by Hajrudin Somun and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam the Misunderstood Religion written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam Properly Understood Mahathir Mohamad on Religion Malaysian Society and Politics written by Sven Alexander Schottmann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis represents the first major study of the representations that Mahathir Mohamad made of Islam and of the role that Islam played in shaping his political vision and discourse. The longest serving Prime Minister of Malaysia, holding the post from 1981 to 2003, Mahathir was a remarkable politician by any measure. Most aspects of his leadership have been closely studied, but his articulation of Islam represents a long neglected but greatly needed perspective on both the man and the country that he sought to set onto the path of accelerated modernisation. Apart from identifying dominant themes in the evolving representations he made about Islam, this thesis also investigates the biographical, intellectual and theological influences that underlay his assertion that Islam was not an obstacle to the modernisation of Muslim societies.I put the case that the representations Mahathir made of religion can be conceived of as a relatively coherent discourse which might be called "Mahathir's Islam." Apart from rationalistic and pragmatist interpretations of the religion, these representations also contained Mahathir's assessment of the socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing the contemporary Muslim world, and a "theology of progress," or the range of solutions and corrective measures which he proposed Muslims should adopt. This thesis argues that "Mahathir's Islam" inspired and informed much of the government's 'Islamisation' policies of the 1980s and 1990s. This underscores Mahathir's centrality in the development of Malaysia's public Islam during these years of pivotal change. My analysis concludes that Mahathir's religious discourse was marked by strong dualisms. The public representations he made of 'correctly understood Islam,' were themselves moulded by the competing forces of the circumstances he found himself in as well as his own understandings of religion. Similarly, while Mahathir emphasised the individualistic, egalitarian, pluralistic, democratic and dynamic qualities of Islam, his government concurrently enacted legislation that circumscribed religious freedoms. Conversely, while the representations which Mahathir made of Islam were fraught with contradictions and flaws, his insistence that every Muslim had the right to speak for Islam paradoxically seem to have strengthened the ground for the future democratisation of Malaysian politics.
Download or read book Giants of Asia Conversations with Mahathir Mohamad written by Tom Plate and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He began his professional career as a family physician but wound up prescribing innovative political medicines for the entire nation that remain controversial even today. Was he exactly the bold and fearless policy doctor that the troubled body politic of Malaysia needed? Or was he just another mendacious mediocrity with a record of persistent misdiagnoses, phony remedies and self-serving justifications? Only history’s judgment can offer the final verdict but Dr Mahathir himself is in no doubt. In a riveting series of unprecedented conversations, Malaysia’s most famous former prime minister reveals to American journalist and author Tom Plate a panoramic panoply of views on governing, on Islam, on Jews, on the West and on Malays that are striking in historical sweep and contemporary relevance.
Download or read book Mahathir Mohamad written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Mahathir Mohamad's lack of inhibition in speaking his mind - even when his opinions go against the tide of conventional thinking - is well documented. In this book, he pulls no punches when he says much that needs to be said on a wide variety of issues: the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Islam and democracy, Western materialism versus Eastern spiritualism, China, Japan, education and the family, leadership, etc. What we have here is one man's thoughts on issues that affect the world while on the road towards achieving true globalization. Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is the former prime minister of Malaysia. As the strategist of modern Malaysia's phenomenal growth over the last decade of the 20th century, he is the catalyst behind Malaysia's Vision 2020 and the Multimedia Super Corridor."
Download or read book Islam Democracy and Good Governance written by Ibrahim Abu Shah and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unified Islamic Teaching Promotes Global Unity and Peace written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mahathir s Islam written by Imankalyan Lahiri and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the socio-political conditions of Islam in Malaysia under the prime ministership of Mahathir bin Mohamad, b. 1925
Download or read book Human Rights written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
