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Thursday, March 3, 2022

The Rise of Muslim Millenarianism in Malaysia

THE I DIPLOMAT
Muhammad Haziq Bin Jani
March 02, 2022

Eschatological or “end-times” narratives have become increasingly popular among Malaysian Muslims.

Economic uncertainty and a fractured political landscape may be triggering a new wave of Islamic resurgence in Muslim-majority Malaysia. In the 1970s and 1980s, various strains of Islamist discourse penetrated civil society and the already identity-based political scene. During that period, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) declared the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) kafir, while the latter co-opted the Islamist youth activist Anwar Ibrahim into its ranks and expanded the country’s religious bureaucracy.
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