Negotiating Statist Islam: Fatwa and State Policy in Singapore

This article examines how state-linked religious actors negotiate religious demands in a secular authoritarian state. There is a prevalent assumption that such religious actors lack the agency to affect state decisions. I do not seek to challenge that proposition, rather to qualify it by identifying...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Afif Pasuni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-04-01
Series:Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341803700103