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OverviewIndian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore’s otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore’s Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to religious services have intensified, while there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates. Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of ‘culture’ and ‘race’ in debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Torsten Tschacher (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367273033ISBN 10: 0367273039 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 21 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Histories of a Name: Making the ‘Indian Muslim’ Chapter 3: Alternatives or ‘Sub-communities’? Engaging with Internal Difference Chapter 4: Dress, Drama, and Divorce: The Clash of Masculinities Chapter 5: Religion or Culture? Popular Practice and the Perception of Difference Chapter 6: The Markers of Difference: History, Language, Identity Chapter 7: The Organisation of Religious Life Chapter 8: Representing ‘Indian Muslims’: The Politics of Mediation Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationTorsten Tschacher is Junior-Professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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