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- Title: Islamist Realignments and the Rebranding of the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (Report)
- Author : Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 313 KB
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During the lengthy tenure of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's premiership (1981-2003), the formal political scene of Islamism (1) was dominated by the incessant rivalry between the ruling United Malays' National Organization (UMNO) and Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS: Parti Islam SeMalaysia). The Islamist civil society, on the other hand, witnessed the blossoming of independent Islamic movements such as the Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM: Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia), the Society for Islamic Reform (JIM: Jamaah Islah Malaysia), Darul Arqam and Jamaat Tabligh. These movements were distinctive in their utilization of dakwah (missionary effort) rather than overt politics as a means of struggling for Islam. Except for the Indian-originated Jamaat Tabligh, the other movements' programmes, structures and aspirations had political content and significance in their various ways and configurations. Since the new millennium, notable Islamists have opted to shift organizational affiliations and strategies in the face of closer state scrutiny and effective portrayal of the state as an Islamic entity in whatever form. While the main movements continue to exist in mellowed forms, the expansion of civil society has sparked the formation of new groupings and alignments which, while owing their existence to new undercurrents in Malaysian society, are not necessarily detached from the older movements. The new groupings and alignments, albeit smaller in actual membership from their precursors among the larger movements, have struck a chord among the urban Malay-Muslim masses by vocally addressing issues which are seen as essential to Muslim identity formation and development as the post-New Economic Policy (NEP) generation gradually establishes itself at the helm of national socio-political affairs. The provisional impact of these new groupings will hopefully be made clear in the course of this paper, which narrows down to an investigation into metamorphoses that have affected and transpired in one of the most influential civil society movements of contemporary Islamism, viz. ABIM.
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