| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 345 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Islam and state -- Burma -- Congresses
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Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Burma -- Congresses
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Islam -- Relations -- Buddhism -- Congresses
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Buddhism -- Relations -- Islam -- Congresses
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Buddhism
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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Islam and state
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Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Myanmar.
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Buddhism.
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Islam.
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State and Church relations.
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Politics.
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Burma
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crouch, Melissa, editor
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National University of Singapore. Faculty of Law, host institution.
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| ISBN |
9780199086979 |
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0199086974 |
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