Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah

This paper analyses the process of independence in Sabah and the consequent Islamisation of its population, which caused the amendment of the State Constitution in 1973. The first part of the paper states that the unification of Sabah with Malaya into the Federation of Malaysia guaranteed its indepe...

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Main Authors:	Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza, Akhmetova, Elmira
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2019
Subjects:	BP173.6 Islam and the state JQ715 Politics and Government in Malaysia JQ719 Elections in Malaysia
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/1/Islam%20and%20Politics%20in%20Malaysia_Islam%20in%20Asia%202019.pdf

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spelling	iium-725752019-06-13T00:49:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/ Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza Akhmetova, Elmira BP173.6 Islam and the state JQ715 Politics and Government in Malaysia JQ719 Elections in Malaysia This paper analyses the process of independence in Sabah and the consequent Islamisation of its population, which caused the amendment of the State Constitution in 1973. The first part of the paper states that the unification of Sabah with Malaya into the Federation of Malaysia guaranteed its independence from the British colonial rule as well as saved it from the communist threat. The next part of the paper suggests that the Islamisation activities were highly associated with the political needs of the government where the Muslim political leaders strived for increasing the number of their supporters in order to maintain their seats as the ruling government in Sabah. Thus, the paper finds the strong relationship between Islam and politics in modern nation-states, and concludes that the rapid growth of the number of Muslims in Sabah later created the quality problem as their religious education was not seen as the priority by the ruling government. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2019 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/1/Islam%20and%20Politics%20in%20Malaysia_Islam%20in%20Asia%202019.pdf Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza and Akhmetova, Elmira (2019) Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah. Journal of Islam in Asia, xx (xx). pp. 1-13. E-ISSN 2289-8077 (In Press) https://journals.iium.edu.my/jiasia/index.php/Islam
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description	This paper analyses the process of independence in Sabah and the consequent Islamisation of its population, which caused the amendment of the State Constitution in 1973. The first part of the paper states that the unification of Sabah with Malaya into the Federation of Malaysia guaranteed its independence from the British colonial rule as well as saved it from the communist threat. The next part of the paper suggests that the Islamisation activities were highly associated with the political needs of the government where the Muslim political leaders strived for increasing the number of their supporters in order to maintain their seats as the ruling government in Sabah. Thus, the paper finds the strong relationship between Islam and politics in modern nation-states, and concludes that the rapid growth of the number of Muslims in Sabah later created the quality problem as their religious education was not seen as the priority by the ruling government.
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author	Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza Akhmetova, Elmira
author_facet	Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza Akhmetova, Elmira
author_sort	Syed Hamid, Sharifah Sara Hasliza
title	Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah
title_short	Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah
title_full	Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah
title_fullStr	Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah
title_full_unstemmed	Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah
title_sort	islam and politics in malaysia: the realisation of islam as a state religion in sabah
publisher	IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72575/1/Islam%20and%20Politics%20in%20Malaysia_Islam%20in%20Asia%202019.pdf
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Islam and politics in Malaysia: the realisation of Islam as a state religion in Sabah

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