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Department of Political and Social Change · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Southeast Asia is home to 260 million Muslims, the largest religious community in the region. This course will survey the diverse political expressions of this community, describing and analysing key movements, events and figures as well as the involvement of Islamic groups in regional conflicts and terrorism. A number of broader issues will be addressed, including: 1. The nature of the interaction between external Islamic sources and local religio-cultural traditions, both historically and contemporaneously; 2. The role of Islam in regional insurgencies such as those in southern Thailand, the southern Philippines, Singapore and western Myanmar/Burma; 3. The dynamics of radicalisation and terrorism; 4. The impact of accelerated Islamisation upon political Islam and the state in Malaysia and Indonesia; and 5. The influence of Islam on regional diplomacy. In addition, the course will foster close analysis of primary source texts as well as critical engagement with the scholarly literature on Southeast Asian Islam.
Critical Seminar Discussion
Learning outcomes 1, 5
Reading Response Papers (4 in total; 500-700 words each)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 6
Main Essay of 3000 words
Learning outcomes 3, 4, 5, 6
Examination
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 6
2-hour seminar, 8 hours personal study per week over a 12 week semester.
Fealy, Greg and Virginia Hooker (eds.), Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. Means, Gordon P., Political Islam in Southeast Asia, Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2009.