Human Rights
Author : Mahathir bin Mohamad
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Human rights
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Author : Mahathir bin Mohamad
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Human rights
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Author : Mahathir bin Mohamad
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Malaysia
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Author : Sven Schottmann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824876474
Mahathir Mohamad’s legacy as Malaysia’s longest serving prime minister (1981–2003) is deeply controversial. His engagement with Islam, the religion of just over half Malaysia’s population, has often been dismissed as partisan maneuvering. Yet his willingness to countenance a more prominent place for Islam in government and society is what distinguished him from other modernist politicians, and his instinct to set Malaysian politics against the backdrop of the wider Muslim world was politically astute. Author Sven Schottmann argues that Mahathir’s transformative effect on Malaysia can only be fully appreciated if we also take him seriously as one of the postcolonial Muslim world’s most significant political thought leaders. Schottmann sees Mahathir’s representations of Islam as a relatively coherent discourse that can legitimately be described as “Mahathir’s Islam.” This discourse contains Mahathir’s assessment of the economic, political, and sociocultural problems facing the contemporary Muslim world and the range of solutions and corrective measures that he proposed Muslims should adopt. His ideas are fraught with flaws and contradictions. On the one hand, he emphasized the individualistic, egalitarian, pluralistic, democratic, and dynamic qualities of Islam. On the other, his government enacted legislation and acquiesced in the activities of religious bodies that curtailed religious freedoms of both Muslims and non-Muslims. His ideas contributed to Malaysia’s worsening state of interethnic relations, yet his insistence that every Muslim had the right to speak for Islam may have, paradoxically, prepared the ground for a future democratization of Malaysian politics. Mahathir’s Islam is based on rigorous analysis of Mahathir’s speeches, interviews, and writings, which the author is able to link to parallel processes elsewhere in the Muslim world—Indonesia, the Middle East, Pakistan, Turkey, and diaspora communities in the West. Mahathir’s Islamic discourse, Schottmann suggests, must be read against the wider late twentieth-century resurgence of religion in general, and the post-1970s Islamic revival in particular. Balanced in approach and engagingly written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, religious studies, and others interested in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, or Mahathir himself.
Author : Diane K. Mauzy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134695209
A hard-hitting and readable book which examines Mahathir's character, his ideas and policies and relates them to the social, economic and political setting inside Malaysia. Up until recently, high rates of economic growth and a striking reduction in poverty have been the hallmarks of this vibrant Tiger economy. Mahathir's success has now been placed in jeopardy by the recent economic crisis, and his rule is coming under hostile scrutiny. As one of the most controversial political figures in South-east Asia, Mahathir's success at managing ethnic tensions, policies of industrialization, modernization and foreign policy are explored, as are his grandiose projects, his human rights record and approach to corruption. Milne and Mauzy, leading authors in this field, assess Mahathir's rule within this context as well as the abrupt dismissal from office, arrest and trial of Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir's deputy, in late 1998.
Author : Mahathir bin Mohamad
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Malays
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Author : Tom Plate
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 981434687X
He began his professional career as a family physician but wound up prescribing innovative political medicines for the entire nation that remain controversial even today. Was he exactly the bold and fearless policy doctor that the troubled body politic of Malaysia needed? Or was he just another mendacious mediocrity with a record of persistent misdiagnoses, phony remedies and self-serving justifications? Only history’s judgment can offer the final verdict but Dr Mahathir himself is in no doubt. In a riveting series of unprecedented conversations, Malaysia’s most famous former prime minister reveals to American journalist and author Tom Plate a panoramic panoply of views on governing, on Islam, on Jews, on the West and on Malays that are striking in historical sweep and contemporary relevance.
Author : Boo Teik Khoo
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia since 1981, is one of Asia's most successful politicians. Once feared by some as an ideologue of state intervention to restructure Malaysian society, Mahathir is now admired by many for his vision of industrializing his nation into Asia's 'fifth tiger.' Paradoxes of Mahathirism is the first full-length scholarly examination of the enigma of Mahathir. As a study of political ideology, it explores Mahathir's ideas on nationalism, capitalism, Islam, populism, and authoritarianism--the core of Mahathirism. Within the context of Malaysia's recent political history, it charts the evolution of Mahathir's complex world-view to reveal paradoxes, alternating patterns of consistency and contradiction, which help us understand his politics, policies, and personality.
Author : Tom Plate
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Mahathir bin Mohamad
ISBN : 9789814276634
A riveting look into Malaysia's most famous prime minister and his often controversial views and policies. A penetrating insight into the mind of Malaysia's most famous and controversial prime minister. Undiluted and candid views on many issues and topics - Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore, Israel and its allies, the Jews and the Malays, and Dr Mahathir's prescription for handling the Malay terrorist challenge. Author is an award-winning American journalist and distinguished scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies. He began his professional career as a family physician but wound up prescribing innovative political medicines for the entire nation that remain controversial even today. Was he exactly the bold and fearless policy doctor that the troubled body politic of Malaysia needed? Or was he just another mendacious mediocrity with a record of persistent misdiagnoses, phony remedies and self-serving justifications? Only history's judgment can offer the final verdict but Dr Mahathir himself is in no doubt. In a riveting series of unprecedented conversations, Malaysia's most famous former prime minister reveals to American journalist and author Tom Plate a panoramic panoply of views on governing, on Islam, on Jews, on the West and on Malays that are striking in historical sweep and contemporary relevance. Tom Plate, author of Confessions of an American Media Man(2007) and Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew(2010) is an experienced writer, journalist and syndicated columnist. He is director of the Pacific Perspectives Media Center in Beverley Hills, a non-profit organisation that syndicates high-end op-eds and was recently appointed Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Human rights
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Author : B. Wain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230251234
Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing world's most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.