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- English
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About this book
Of Asia's 800 million Muslims, 215 million are minorities within their countries. These Muslim minorities have experienced a persistent decline in their socioeconomic and political status. Along with this decline, they are increasingly identified by their faith and largely accorded no other identity for civic relations. Why have these Muslim minorities been particularly affected during a time of unprecedented opportunities for the mainstream in Asia's unprecedented era of growth and rising freedoms?
Using detailed analyses of China, India, and the Philippines, Modes of Engagement argues that key factors in this phenomenon include the linkage between socioeconomic decline, loss of political power, and narrowing of identity; nationalism and its associated connotations of the assimilation of minorities; the weakness of civil society generally in Asia; and the rise in regional and global alliances for security and trade.
Contributors include Wajahat Habibullah (National Commission for Minorities and National Institute of Technology, India), Rakesh Basant (Indian Institute of Management), Dru C. Gladney (Pomona College), and Joseph Chinyong Liow (Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Social, Economic, and Political Status of Muslim Indians: Government Findings, Response, and the Role of the National Commission for Minorities
- 3. Discourses of Defiance: Framing Muslim Self-Determination in the Philippines
- 4. China’s Various Islams: Comparing State Accommodation of Muslim Minorities
- 5. Education and Employment among Muslims in India: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E