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By Shanti Nair

A case learn of a multi-ethnic Muslim kingdom and a contribution to the examine of the family services of international coverage. The ebook additionally addresses the genuine and imagined value of Islam as a strength in modern international politics.

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More precisely, in addressing Malaysia’s Muslim and therefore Malay audience, their discourse implicitly challenged UMNO’s role as protector of Malay interests, even as it reshaped the agenda of socio-economic discourse. The location of the main themes of such religious revivalism in the context of intra-Malay rivalry in the political domain set the scene for the Malaysian government’s attempts to meet such a new challenge to its authority. 52 Islamic revivalism even while it aided in the articulation of grievances was also constituent to the growth of a modern Malay middle class in Malaysian society.

Politics was also determined by complementary changes in the machinery of government. As Gordon Means points out, policy changes introduced after 1969 accelerated the Malaysianization of the government apparatus (already a postindependence policy), enabling the rapid development of a largely Malay bureaucracy (recruitment and promotion preferences with Malay preponderance even more apparent at the higher administrative and policy-making levels). 43 This was ultimately also to underline the congruence of political and bureaucratic support for a greater Islamic orientation in public policy.

The peoples of these states were incorporated into the entity known as Malaysia in 1963. 12 The substantial presence and heterogeneity of the non-Malays and nonMuslims makes the consideration of their presence vital in the formulation, implementation and legitimation of public policy, while underlining a Malaysian sense of the uniqueness of its character (at least until recently) within the Muslim world. A Constitutional guarantee of Malay special rights was “bargained” against a corresponding recognition of jus soli rights for the non-Malay communities.

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