1st Edition
Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore
By Torsten Tschacher
Copyright 2018
242 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
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Indian 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... Read more
Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography
Biography
Torsten Tschacher is Junior-Professor at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
