Islam and the state in Myanmar : Muslim-Buddhist relations and the politics of belonging / edited by Melissa Crouch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Crouch, Melissa, editor.

National University of Singapore. Faculty of Law, host institution.

Conference Name:

Islam, Law and the State in Myanmar (Conference) (2014 : Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Legal status, laws, etc--Burma--Congresses.

Muslims.

Muslims--Political activity--Burma--Congresses.

Islam and state--Burma--Congresses.

Islam and state.

Buddhism and state--Burma--Congresses.

Buddhism and state.

Islam--Relations--Buddhism--Congresses.

Islam.

Buddhism--Relations--Islam--Congresses.

Buddhism.

Muslims--Political activity.

Interfaith relations.

Muslims--Legal status, laws, etc.

Relations.

Burma.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 345 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume explores relations between Islam and Buddhism and the state in Myanmar, offering an informed response to contemporary issues facing the Muslim communities there.

Contents:

Myanmar's Muslim mosaic and the politics of belonging / Melissa Crouch

Reconstructing trajectories of Islam in British Burma / Stephen Keck

Personal law and colonial legacy : state-religion relations and Islamic law in Myanmar / Melissa Crouch

Muslim political activity in transitional Myanmar / Nicholas Farrelly

Houses of Islam : Muslims, property rights, and the state in Myanmar / Judith Beyer

Muslim women's education in Myanmar / Phyu Phyu Oo

Islamophobia in Buddhist Myanmar : the 969 movement and anti-Muslim violence / Nyi Nyi Kyaw

New technologies, established practices : developing narratives of Muslim threat in Myanmar / Matt Schissler

Making the Muslim other in Myanmar and Sri Lanka / Benjamin Schonthal

The global and regional dynamics of humanitarian aid in Rakhine State / Alistair D.B. Cook

Myanmar's Muslims, what do we now know? / Clark B. Lombardi.

Notes:

Papers presented at a workshop held in January 2014 on 'Islam, Law and the State in Myanmar' at the Faculty of Law, the National University of Singapore.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index.

ISBN:

9780199461202

0199461201

OCLC:

966410518