{"id":1189,"date":"2017-08-26T05:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2020-10-27T05:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:05:10","slug":"singapore-chronicles-malays-by-noor-aisha-abdul-rahman-and-azhar-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/2017\/08\/26\/singapore-chronicles-malays-by-noor-aisha-abdul-rahman-and-azhar-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Chronicles: Malays by Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman and Azhar Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/mlsnews\/files\/2019\/09\/Singapore-Chronicles-Malays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-160 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/mlsnews\/files\/2019\/09\/Singapore-Chronicles-Malays-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNoor Aisha Abdul Rahman &amp; Azhar Ibrahim,\u00a0<em><strong>Singapore Chronicles: Malays<\/strong><\/em>, Straits Times Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p>This work offers a glimpse of the Malay community as it adapted to its minority status and responded to the myriad challenges of historical, social and political changes. Unlike among the Chinese and the Indians, there is remarkable cohesiveness within the community as most speak Malay and practise Islam. Yet, like the other communities, it struggles to retain its culture, tradition and values against the onslaught of urbanisation and Westernisation. With a focus on Malay leadership, education, religion, Syariah laws, language and literary tradition, this book evaluates how these aspects have evolved over the decades. Problems pertaining to the community\u2019s socio-economic progress and future challenges are also discussed. This primer is an introduction to one of Singapore\u2019s small yet resilient and remarkable communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman &amp; Azhar Ibrahim,\u00a0Singapore Chronicles: Malays, Straits Times Press, 2017 This work offers a glimpse of the Malay community as it adapted to its minority status and responded to the myriad challenges of historical, social and political changes. Unlike among the Chinese and the Indians, there is remarkable cohesiveness within the community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff","category-staff-publications","tag-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}