Owoyemi, Musa Yusuf and Ahmad Sabri, Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani (2014) Religion, race and national identity in Malaysian society. The Islamic Quarterly, 58 (4). pp. 239-314. ISSN 0021-1842

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Abstract

This paper discuses the issue of religion, ethnicity and national identity with focus specifically on the experience of Islam in a multi-ethnic and multi religious Malaysian state.The main thrust of the paper is that religion plays a very important role in the national identity of a nation and the Malaysian nation despite its multi-religious nature is no exception to this rule.The paper look f the debate about the identification of Malaysia as an Islamic state.Using historical and analytical, methods, this paper establishes that every analysis historical, politically, and socially support this view.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
Divisions:	School of Education & Modern Languages
Depositing User:	Dr. Musa Yusuf Owoyemi
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2016 03:36
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2016 03:36
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/18838

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