Muslim Southeast Asia refers to those areas of Southeast Asia that have significant populations of Muslims. It includes:
- Most parts of Indonesia including most of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, Maluku Islands and Sulawesi (Java and Sumatra alone have the majority of Indonesia's population).
- Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah
- Brunei
- Southern Philippines (Bangsamoro)
- Patani region and Satun
- Westernmost parts of Myanmar, near the Bangladeshi border.
Culturally, it would also include the Malay people of Singapore (which was historically a Malay Muslim populated island), several (mainly coastal) ethnic groups of Sarawak such as Melanau, Bisaya, Narom, Seru, Miriek, Kedayan and Sarawak Malays, Cham people of Cambodia and Vietnam, and other Muslim communities in Southeast Asia.
See also
editReferences
edit- Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia, edited by Robert W. Hefner; Patricia Horvatich, University of Hawaii Press, Dec 2007 ISBN 978-0-8248-1957-6
- Barendregt, Bart. 2006. “Nasyid in the Making: Transnational Soundscapes for Muslim Southeast Asia.” in Medi@Asia: Communication, Culture, Context, Holden, T. and T. Scrase (eds.), pp. 171–187, London: Routledge.
External links
edit- Library resources in your library and in other libraries about Muslim Southeast Asia
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