Making Sense of an Evolving Identity: A Survey of Studies on Identity and Identity Formation among Malay-Muslims in Singapore

Making Sense of an Evolving Identity: A Survey of Studies on Identity and Identity Formation among Malay-Muslims in Singapore

July 6, 2016
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‘Making Sense of an Evolving Identity: A Survey of Studies on Identity and Identity Formation among Malay-Muslims in Singapore’ by A/P Khairudin Aljunied (FASS Dept of Malay Studies) was published in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs in 2006.

The article serves as the first extensive survey of studies on Malay identity in Singapore in which A/P Aljunied reviews writings on Malay-Muslim identity in Singapore produced after the Second World War, and identifies research trends that have dominated scholarship on identity formation thus far. Additionally, he proposes new perspectives from which the study of Malay-Muslim identity in Singapore could be further developed. These include exploring the expression of Malay-Muslim identity through literature and creative arts, and the role of gender and diasporas in influencing identity formation.

Read the full text of the article here.