Making Space for Islam
Religion, Science, and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3606464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darren C Zook (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1143-1166 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911810002925 |
| OpenAlex | W2147585862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
In October 2007, Malaysia celebrated sending its first astronaut into space, as part of a cooperative venture on board a Russian space mission. As Malaysia's first astronaut was a Muslim, the Malaysian government commissioned, through its Department of Islamic Development, a project to create a definitive set of guidelines for the practice of Islam in outer space, specifically on board the International Space Station. What may on the surface appear to be a practical exercise in clarifying religious practice reveals upon closer examination to be a complex restructuring of Malaysia's domestic and international politics, with the role of Islam as the catalytic and somewhat controversial centerpiece
Economics · Government (linguistics) · Islam · Management · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration
What (Who) Is Moderate Islam for? Malaysia's Ontological Security Seeking in the Post-September 11 Global Order
Unregistered Marriages of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia
The 2009 Malaysian Female Circumcision Fatwa
Law and Society in the Evolution of Malaysia's Islamic Capital Market Regulation
Experts beyond discourse
Democracy in Malaysia
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Islam and the Secular State
Islam in an Era of Nation-States
The Transmission of al-Manar's Reformism to the Malay-Indonesian World
Malaysia
Personalized Politics
Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia
Islamic Identity and Development
Culture and Economy
Authoritarian Populism in Malaysia
The Pursuit of Certainty
The May Thirteenth Incident and Democracy in Malaysia
Inter‐movement tension among resurgent Muslims in Malaysia
The Mahathir administration's war against Islamic militancy
Exigency or expediency? Contextualising political Islam and the pas challenge in Malaysian politics
Blood, Sweat and Jihad
Contesting Malayness
Culture and Economy
Authoritarian populism in Malaysia
Reclaiming Adat
Ethnonationalism Versus Religious Transnationalism
Malaysia
Islam and Nation Building in Southeast Asia
The Pursuit of Certainty
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |