Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia
About the Book Series
This series aims to publish original and cutting-edge contributions from scholars in religious studies, sociology, political science, history, anthropology, economics, psychology, geography and other related disciplines to provide new perspectives on the historical, comparative, and theoretical study of Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia from the early modern period to the present. Works that are published in the series would fill the gaps in the existing literature, other than offering new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia. The series gives much emphasis on works that are both reflexive and empirical, written by both junior and senior scholars in the field.
Series editors:
Dr. Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied [email protected]
Malaysia’s State Formation: Small Steps and Large Outcomes of a Contested Leviathan
1st Edition
By Abdillah Noh
June 27, 2025
This book comes up with the Contested Leviathan Framework to describe the essence of Malaysia’s political economy. The framework is developed from tracing Malaysia’s political economy over approximately 157 years (1800–1957) and tested against the many issues confronting post-colonial Malaysia. ...
Class and Politics in Malaysian and Singaporean Nation Building
1st Edition
By Muhamad M. N. Nadzri
May 27, 2025
Nadzri explores a range of factors that have influenced nation building in Malaysia and Singapore, with principal emphasis on the importance of social and economic class. In contrast to previous studies on nation building, which overwhelming rely on the explanatory power of culture, race and ethnic...
Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism: New Media and Popular Culture Engagements in Brunei and Malaysia
1st Edition
By Siti Mazidah Mohamad
November 18, 2024
Mohamad examines the day-to-day experience of virtual and non-tangible mobilities of young Bruneian Malay Muslim and Malaysians, as enabled by popular culture and digital media. Cosmopolitanism has garnered interest from sociology, political studies, religious studies, geography, and ...
Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore
1st Edition
By Torsten Tschacher
March 21, 2019
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 ...
Indonesia, Islam, and the International Political Economy: Clash or Cooperation?
1st Edition
By Mark Williams
January 23, 2019
The Republic of Indonesia is a rising great power in the Asia-Pacific, set to become the eighth largest economy in the world in the coming decades. It is the most populous Muslim majority country in the world. The largest Islamic organizations and parties have supported Indonesia’s participation ...
Foundations of Islamic Governance: A Southeast Asian Perspective
1st Edition
By Maszlee Malik
August 14, 2018
The aim of this book is to explore and analyze the Islamic axioms, foundation principles and values underpinning the field of governance in an attempt to construct the architectonics of a new systemic and dynamic theory and formulate the articulation of ‘Islamic governance’. This discursive and ...