Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia

Providing an ethnographic account of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its Youth Wing (Dewan Pemuda PAS), this book analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics. It explores the party's changing approach towards popular culture and critically investigates whether the narrative of a post-Islamist turn can be applied to the PAS Youth.

"Muller adds crucial pieces to the puzzle of how an often essentialising and exclusionary ethnically based Islamist party is seeking to rule a multicultural, multi-ethnic modern state like Malaysia." - Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Anthropos

Autorentext

Dominik Muller is a postdoctoral fellow in political and legal anthropology at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. He has held fellowships and visiting positions at Stanford University, the University of Brunei Darussalam, and the University of Oxford.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Conceptual Framework: Islamism, Post-Islamism or Pop-Islamism? 2. The Politics of Islam in Malaysia 3. The Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its youth wing 4. The Pop-Islamist reinvention of PAS: Anthropological observations 5. Conclusions