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Japanese Policy Towards Islam in Malaya During the Occupation: A Reassessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2002

Abu Talib Ahmad
Abu Talib Ahmad
Affiliation:
School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. [email protected]
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Abstract

Based on surviving local records, this essay argues that after 1943 Japanese policy towards Islam underwent far-reaching changes when the faith, religious elites and religious edifices were incorporated into the Japanese propaganda machinery for the purpose of winning a war in which neither Islam nor Malay-Muslims had any vested interest.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 107 - 122
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© 2002 The National University of Singapore

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