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Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society. Organised around six key themes that interweave the connected histories of three countries in Southeast Asia Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia this book shows the ways in which historical actors have promoted better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the region. Case studies from across these countries of the Malay world take in the rise of the network society in the region in the 1970s up until the early 21st century, providing a panoramic view of Muslim cosmopolitan practices, outlook and visions in the region.

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Aljunied asserts a cosmopolitan Southeast Asia where homes and houses of worship exist peacefully side by side. To make his argument, Aljunied takes readers on a narrative adventure: first through the marketplace and its multi-ethnic interactions; then to the mosque and its collaboration of forms; next to it, the oldest Hindu temple and the space exchanges between these two. He moves on to consider the place of women's scarves in public life and offers brief autobiographies of leading public intellectuals. Considerations of diversity are even present in women's headscarves. The one space where there is tension with cosmopolitanism is within the governments themselves. A good read. -- A. B. Al-Deen, DePaul University, CHOICE

Aljunied asserts a cosmopolitan Southeast Asia where homes and houses of worship exist peacefully side by side. To make his argument, Aljunied takes readers on a narrative adventure: first through the marketplace and its multi-ethnic interactions; then to the mosque and its collaboration of forms; next to it, the oldest Hindu temple and the space exchanges between these two. He moves on to consider the place of women's scarves in public life and offers brief autobiographies of leading public intellectuals. Considerations of diversity are even present in women's headscarves. The one space where there is tension with cosmopolitanism is within the governments themselves. A good read. -- A. B. Al-Deen, DePaul University, CHOICE This book is a new must read not only for academic specialists and students in this field, but also for more general readers (including policy who want to understand what is really going on with Islam in Southeast Asia, without falling into the pitfall of orientalist or alarmist bias. -- Ikuya Tokoro, International Journal of Asian Studies

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Khairudin Aljunied is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.

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