Maznah Mohamad
Biographic Data
| ID | 306541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maznah Mohamad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maznah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohamad |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMAD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0756-3434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"Introduction to the Special Issue "Marriage, Intimacy, Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia
The topic of gender and Islam in Southeast Asia has been much studied
Sex Manuals in Malay Manuscripts as Another Transcript of Gender Relations
This article interprets the narratives of sex manuals produced within the Malay-Indonesian archipelago before the coming of Western colonialism and the dawn of postcolonial Islamic resurgence. In the collection of Malaysian libraries and museums, these manuscripts are largely classified as Kitab Jimak and Kitab Tib. They are all written in the Malay language with indigenous references, though the contents are likely derived from a common genre of…
Islamic Experiments in Global Finance by Daromir Rudnyckyj
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The Monetisation of Consent and its Limits: Explaining Political Dominance and Decline in Malaysia
Malaysia’s 14th General Election in 2018 toppled the Barisan Nasional government after six decades in power. Barisan Nasional’s longevity was due to its performance legitimacy and a capacity to manipulate electoral mechanisms. However, it was the use of money in eliciting consent that led to a political change. This article traces how sustaining the dominance of the Barisan Nasional under Najib Razak used a strategy which we term the monetisation…
Getting More Women into Politics under One-Party Dominance: Collaboration, Clientelism, and Coalition Building in the Determination of Women’s Representation in Malaysia
Malaysia’s representation of women as parliamentarians remains one of the lowest in comparison to other Southeast Asian and global parliamentary democracies. However, when contextualized against Malaysia’s politics of divides and dissent starting from 1999 onward, there are some newer characteristics of women’s involvement in formal politics. This paper explores the specificities of women’s experience in formal politics under the one-party domina…
Religion and politics in Malaysian nation-building: A “double-movement” of hegemonic and plural Islam
This article looks at links and fractures in the development of Political Islam in Malaysia. It looks at the various bases of divides in Malay political mobilization. In the early colonial period, Malay–Islamic political elites were divided along the lines of language and schooling, while the postcolonial era saw the divisions taking on a more ideological basis, marking the deepening of intra-Islamic contestation. The double-movement in Political…
The Customary Tenure Enactment and Matrilineal Land Rights in Negeri Sembilan
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 89, Part 1, No. 310, June 2016
Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
Various forms of partnering - such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. Although, today, forms of partnering in the region are not restricted to formal marriage, the norm remains for couples to marry - to establish a new family, and to accept the cultural requirement to have children. This book provides a co…
Islamic Banking and Finance: Sacred Alignment, Strategic Alliances
This case study from Malaysia adds a new dimension to critiques of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) by studying various aspects of its agency and showing how its growth complements and sometimes supersedes its spiritual components, resulting in new power alignments. The first significant consequence of IBF has been its global role in an emergent multipolar financial and regulatory global space. Second, by the creation of new alliances and govern…
Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness
10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
The Islamic Divorce Contract and a Flawed Axiom of Masculine Protectionism
Malaysian Sharia Reforms in Flux: The Changeable National Character of Islamic Marriage
10.1093/lawfam/ebq016
The Ascendance of Bureaucratic Islam and the Secularization of the Sharia in Malaysia
Although Malaysia is not an overwhelmingly large Muslim-majority country, an extensive religious bureaucracy based on the Sharia1 has . been put in place as part of its vigorous state Islamization agenda.2 Sharia laws applied to Muslims, who comprise 60 percent of the population, are not just limited to family matters but also embrace criminal offences within Islam's wide jurisdiction.3 The expanding scope of Sharia laws, together with political …
Making majority, undoing family: Law, religion and the Islamization of the state in Malaysia
The formation of the family around Islam and Sharia showcases successful state Islamization and the viability of the Muslim population to continue as a cohesive, homogenized political majority. In Malaysia this is a state-directed project filled with tensions and contradictions. Legal outcomes around Muslim-non-Muslim family litigations (through either civil or Sharia courts) have evidenced the inability of the state to protect the welfare of the…
Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage: Political and Cultural Contestations in Southeast Asia
"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives – legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations betwee…
Malaysia — democracy and the end of ethnic politics
In this article I discuss Malaysia's turning point moments – the March 8th General Election and the August 26th by-election which respectively saw the opposition's ascendancy and Anwar Ibrahim's political comeback. The opposition's ability to gain an ‘optimum multiethnic consensus’ had denied the incumbent of its unbroken two-thirds majority win. Its coalition arrangement was presented as a credible alternative to the 51 year-old winning but incr…
Malay/Malaysian/Islamic: Four Genres of Political Writings and the Postcoloniality of Autochthonous Texts
The hardened and circumscribed reality of being Malay in Malaysia is conditioned upon a historical, constitutional, statistical and normative definition of that identity. This essay explores the articulations of these tensions through the shifting, interchangeable and overlapping notion of Malay/Malaysian/Islamic, which represents the idea of race, citizen and religion. It focuses on four genres of Malaysian political ideas which emanate from the…
Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia
Feminism and the women's movement in Malaysia: An unsung (r)evolution
1. Introduction 2. Accommodating Feminisms: The Women's Movement in Contemporary Malaysia 3. The Violence Against Women Campaign: A Never-ending Story? 4. An Unholy Alliance: Women Engaging with the State 5. Negotiating Political Islam: Women in Malay-Muslim Organizations 6. Muted Struggles: Challenges of Women Workers 7. Querying the Forbidden Discourse: Sexuality, Power and Dominance in Malaysia 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Key Members of the Join…
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung evolution
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society that are further divided along class and religious lines. Most historical versions of national struggles have created icons out of male figures. The aut…
Bibliographie/Bibliography
Women's engagement with political Islam in Malaysia
This essay delves into the engagement of Muslim women's groups with political Islam in Malaysia. It argues that a political Islam that has been seen to be broadly inimical to women's status and interest has been ameliorated by such an engagement. Furthermore, the plurality of Islamic engagement by women, ranging from pragmatists, communitarians to liberal‐feminists, has arguably led to a less than hegemonic Islamic order in Malaysia. Such engagem…
Malaysia in 2002: Bracing for a Post‐Mahathir Future
Towards a Human Rights Regime in Southeast Asia: Charting the Course of State Commitment
Introduction Today, in Southeast Asia, redress of human rights violations may be far from being realized. However, following the Asian financial crisis in 1997 there has been modest progress in terms of the proliferation of discourse on human rights and democracy throughout the region. (1) More arguments have also been propounded to tailor human rights language, culture, and its implementation to local contexts and sensitivities. (2) But Southeas…
Malaysia: Mahathirism, Hegemony and the New Opposition
Malaysia — democracy and the end of ethnic politics
In this article I discuss Malaysia's turning point moments – the March 8th General Election and the August 26th by-election which respectively saw the opposition's ascendancy and Anwar Ibrahim's political comeback. The opposition's ability to gain an ‘optimum multiethnic consensus’ had denied the incumbent of its unbroken two-thirds majority win. Its coalition arrangement was presented as a credible alternative to the 51 year-old winning but incr…
Making majority, undoing family: Law, religion and the Islamization of the state in Malaysia
The formation of the family around Islam and Sharia showcases successful state Islamization and the viability of the Muslim population to continue as a cohesive, homogenized political majority. In Malaysia this is a state-directed project filled with tensions and contradictions. Legal outcomes around Muslim-non-Muslim family litigations (through either civil or Sharia courts) have evidenced the inability of the state to protect the welfare of the…
The Monetisation of Consent and its Limits: Explaining Political Dominance and Decline in Malaysia
Malaysia’s 14th General Election in 2018 toppled the Barisan Nasional government after six decades in power. Barisan Nasional’s longevity was due to its performance legitimacy and a capacity to manipulate electoral mechanisms. However, it was the use of money in eliciting consent that led to a political change. This article traces how sustaining the dominance of the Barisan Nasional under Najib Razak used a strategy which we term the monetisation…
Malaysian Sharia Reforms in Flux: The Changeable National Character of Islamic Marriage
10.1093/lawfam/ebq016
The Ascendance of Bureaucratic Islam and the Secularization of the Sharia in Malaysia
Although Malaysia is not an overwhelmingly large Muslim-majority country, an extensive religious bureaucracy based on the Sharia1 has . been put in place as part of its vigorous state Islamization agenda.2 Sharia laws applied to Muslims, who comprise 60 percent of the population, are not just limited to family matters but also embrace criminal offences within Islam's wide jurisdiction.3 The expanding scope of Sharia laws, together with political …
Islamic Banking and Finance: Sacred Alignment, Strategic Alliances
This case study from Malaysia adds a new dimension to critiques of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) by studying various aspects of its agency and showing how its growth complements and sometimes supersedes its spiritual components, resulting in new power alignments. The first significant consequence of IBF has been its global role in an emergent multipolar financial and regulatory global space. Second, by the creation of new alliances and govern…
The Islamic Divorce Contract and a Flawed Axiom of Masculine Protectionism
Towards a Human Rights Regime in Southeast Asia: Charting the Course of State Commitment
Introduction Today, in Southeast Asia, redress of human rights violations may be far from being realized. However, following the Asian financial crisis in 1997 there has been modest progress in terms of the proliferation of discourse on human rights and democracy throughout the region. (1) More arguments have also been propounded to tailor human rights language, culture, and its implementation to local contexts and sensitivities. (2) But Southeas…
Flexible Labor Regimes, New Technologies and Women's Labor: Case Studies of Two Electronics Firms in Malaysia
In today's situation of Malaysia's industrialization, the issue of cultural and social stigmatization of women workers is no longer relevant. The empirical picture shows that, with increasing automation, greater concern about appropriate human resource management strategies has become usual in dealing with labor. This study indicates that in the capital-intensive electronics industry, management have been quite successful in eliciting their worke…
Malay/Malaysian/Islamic: Four Genres of Political Writings and the Postcoloniality of Autochthonous Texts
The hardened and circumscribed reality of being Malay in Malaysia is conditioned upon a historical, constitutional, statistical and normative definition of that identity. This essay explores the articulations of these tensions through the shifting, interchangeable and overlapping notion of Malay/Malaysian/Islamic, which represents the idea of race, citizen and religion. It focuses on four genres of Malaysian political ideas which emanate from the…
Women's engagement with political Islam in Malaysia
This essay delves into the engagement of Muslim women's groups with political Islam in Malaysia. It argues that a political Islam that has been seen to be broadly inimical to women's status and interest has been ameliorated by such an engagement. Furthermore, the plurality of Islamic engagement by women, ranging from pragmatists, communitarians to liberal‐feminists, has arguably led to a less than hegemonic Islamic order in Malaysia. Such engagem…
Flexible Labor Regimes, New Technologies and Women's Labor: Case Studies of Two Electronics Firms in Malaysia
In today's situation of Malaysia's industrialization, the issue of cultural and social stigmatization of women workers is no longer relevant. The empirical picture shows that, with increasing automation, greater concern about appropriate human resource management strategies has become usual in dealing with labor. This study indicates that in the capital-intensive electronics industry, management have been quite successful in eliciting their worke…
The Management of Technology and Women in Two Electronics Firms in Malaysia
Today, given the state of Malaysia’s industrialization, the issue of cultural and social stigmatization of women workers is no longer relevant. The empirical picture shows that with increasing automation, there has been more emphasis and concern about appropriate human resource management strategies that have been used upon labor. This study indicates that in the capital-intensive electronics industry, management has been successful in eliciting …
Feminism and Islamic Family Law Reforms in Malaysia: How Much and to What Extent
In Malaysia's present climate of Islamization, one issue that has received increasing public attention is reform of the Syariah or Islamic Family Law. The reform process takes on many forms and has varied purposes. Islamic feminists have rallied around this issue in response to the overwhelming and vociferous criticism, by a broad spectrum of Muslim women. These women criticize the inefficacy of the Syariah court system in upholding women's right…
The Unravelling Of A “Malay Consensus”
While the Asian financial crisis had ebbed by late 1999, Malaysia was still raging with its own political turmoil. Long after former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had been sacked and imprisoned, opposition towards the Mahathir government appeared strident. The United Malays National Organization (UMNO) ? hitherto seen as pivotal for political stability in the country ? continued to grapple for a blueprint to sustain its dominance of the Mal…
Towards a Human Rights Regime in Southeast Asia: Charting the Course of State Commitment
Introduction Today, in Southeast Asia, redress of human rights violations may be far from being realized. However, following the Asian financial crisis in 1997 there has been modest progress in terms of the proliferation of discourse on human rights and democracy throughout the region. (1) More arguments have also been propounded to tailor human rights language, culture, and its implementation to local contexts and sensitivities. (2) But Southeas…
Malaysia: Mahathirism, Hegemony and the New Opposition
Malaysia in 2002: Bracing for a Post‐Mahathir Future
Bibliographie/Bibliography
Women's engagement with political Islam in Malaysia
This essay delves into the engagement of Muslim women's groups with political Islam in Malaysia. It argues that a political Islam that has been seen to be broadly inimical to women's status and interest has been ameliorated by such an engagement. Furthermore, the plurality of Islamic engagement by women, ranging from pragmatists, communitarians to liberal‐feminists, has arguably led to a less than hegemonic Islamic order in Malaysia. Such engagem…
Feminism and the women's movement in Malaysia: An unsung (r)evolution
1. Introduction 2. Accommodating Feminisms: The Women's Movement in Contemporary Malaysia 3. The Violence Against Women Campaign: A Never-ending Story? 4. An Unholy Alliance: Women Engaging with the State 5. Negotiating Political Islam: Women in Malay-Muslim Organizations 6. Muted Struggles: Challenges of Women Workers 7. Querying the Forbidden Discourse: Sexuality, Power and Dominance in Malaysia 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Key Members of the Join…
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung evolution
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society that are further divided along class and religious lines. Most historical versions of national struggles have created icons out of male figures. The aut…
Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia
Malaysia — democracy and the end of ethnic politics
In this article I discuss Malaysia's turning point moments – the March 8th General Election and the August 26th by-election which respectively saw the opposition's ascendancy and Anwar Ibrahim's political comeback. The opposition's ability to gain an ‘optimum multiethnic consensus’ had denied the incumbent of its unbroken two-thirds majority win. Its coalition arrangement was presented as a credible alternative to the 51 year-old winning but incr…
Malay/Malaysian/Islamic: Four Genres of Political Writings and the Postcoloniality of Autochthonous Texts
The hardened and circumscribed reality of being Malay in Malaysia is conditioned upon a historical, constitutional, statistical and normative definition of that identity. This essay explores the articulations of these tensions through the shifting, interchangeable and overlapping notion of Malay/Malaysian/Islamic, which represents the idea of race, citizen and religion. It focuses on four genres of Malaysian political ideas which emanate from the…
Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage: Political and Cultural Contestations in Southeast Asia
"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives – legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations betwee…
The Ascendance of Bureaucratic Islam and the Secularization of the Sharia in Malaysia
Although Malaysia is not an overwhelmingly large Muslim-majority country, an extensive religious bureaucracy based on the Sharia1 has . been put in place as part of its vigorous state Islamization agenda.2 Sharia laws applied to Muslims, who comprise 60 percent of the population, are not just limited to family matters but also embrace criminal offences within Islam's wide jurisdiction.3 The expanding scope of Sharia laws, together with political …
Making majority, undoing family: Law, religion and the Islamization of the state in Malaysia
The formation of the family around Islam and Sharia showcases successful state Islamization and the viability of the Muslim population to continue as a cohesive, homogenized political majority. In Malaysia this is a state-directed project filled with tensions and contradictions. Legal outcomes around Muslim-non-Muslim family litigations (through either civil or Sharia courts) have evidenced the inability of the state to protect the welfare of the…
The Islamic Divorce Contract and a Flawed Axiom of Masculine Protectionism
Malaysian Sharia Reforms in Flux: The Changeable National Character of Islamic Marriage
10.1093/lawfam/ebq016
Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness
10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
Various forms of partnering - such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. Although, today, forms of partnering in the region are not restricted to formal marriage, the norm remains for couples to marry - to establish a new family, and to accept the cultural requirement to have children. This book provides a co…
Islamic Banking and Finance: Sacred Alignment, Strategic Alliances
This case study from Malaysia adds a new dimension to critiques of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) by studying various aspects of its agency and showing how its growth complements and sometimes supersedes its spiritual components, resulting in new power alignments. The first significant consequence of IBF has been its global role in an emergent multipolar financial and regulatory global space. Second, by the creation of new alliances and govern…
The Customary Tenure Enactment and Matrilineal Land Rights in Negeri Sembilan
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 89, Part 1, No. 310, June 2016
Religion and politics in Malaysian nation-building: A “double-movement” of hegemonic and plural Islam
This article looks at links and fractures in the development of Political Islam in Malaysia. It looks at the various bases of divides in Malay political mobilization. In the early colonial period, Malay–Islamic political elites were divided along the lines of language and schooling, while the postcolonial era saw the divisions taking on a more ideological basis, marking the deepening of intra-Islamic contestation. The double-movement in Political…
Getting More Women into Politics under One-Party Dominance: Collaboration, Clientelism, and Coalition Building in the Determination of Women’s Representation in Malaysia
Malaysia’s representation of women as parliamentarians remains one of the lowest in comparison to other Southeast Asian and global parliamentary democracies. However, when contextualized against Malaysia’s politics of divides and dissent starting from 1999 onward, there are some newer characteristics of women’s involvement in formal politics. This paper explores the specificities of women’s experience in formal politics under the one-party domina…
Political science (23 works) · Asian Studies and History (21 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Islam (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender and Women's Rights (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works)