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Locating Muslim Minorities in East and Southeast Asia book cover

1st Edition

Locating Muslim Minorities in East and Southeast Asia

Edited By Yuka Kobayashi Copyright 2027
250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume examines Muslim minority experiences across East and Southeast Asia through detailed case studies spanning China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Challenging both Western narratives about Muslim minorities and conventional scholarship focused on Muslim-majority Asian countries, this collection reveals how Muslim-minority... Read more

1. Introduction: Locating Muslim Minorities in East and Southeast Asia

Yuka Kobayashi and Avital Avina

2. Fusion Epistemology: ‘Asia as Method’ in locating Muslim Minorities     

Yuka Kobayashi and Avital Avina

Part 1: Northeast Asia         

3. Muslims in China: Minority Rights and Control by the State   

Yuka Kobayashi

4. Towards a Japanese Islam: A Japanese Convert’s Attempt of Indigenisation   

Kieko Obuse

5. Muslims in Contemporary South Korea: Islamic Religion and the Cultural Politics of Ethnicity           

Kyuhoon Cho

Part 2: Southeast Asia        

6. Challenging Exclusion through Networks of Emplacement: Muslim Property in Yangon, Myanmar (2011–2021)           

Elizabeth Rhoads

7. A History of Islam in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia         

William B. Noseworthy

8. Contestation of Identities and Authenticities in Philippine Muslim Society with Focus on Converts to Islam          

Akiko Watanabe

9. The Constitution of Muslim Minorities in Modern Thailand       

Carlo Bonura

10. Institutionalising Islam in Singapore: Managing Islam through Constructing an Ethnoreligious Identity   

Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

Conclusion

Yuka Kobayashi and Avital Avina

Biography

Yuka Kobayashi is senior lecturer (associate professor) in China and international politics at SOAS, University of London. Prior to joining SOAS, she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research interests
include international relations of China, human rights, international law, climate change/energy, and trade and investment (Belt and Road Initiative/WTO/FDI). She has advised various governments, think tanks and international
organisations on these subjects and is an editor of the China Quarterly.

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