Muslim Southeast Asia

Muslim Southeast Asia refers to those areas of Southeast Asia that have significant populations of Muslims. It includes:

• Most parts of Indonesia including most of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, North Maluku and Sulawesi (Java and Sumatra alone have the majority of Indonesia's population).
  • But not including West Timor, West Papua, Papua, East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku province which are mainly Christian, and Bali which is mainly Hindu.
• Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah
• Brunei
• Southern Philippines (Bangsamoro)
• Southern Thailand
• Westernmost parts of Myanmar, near the Bangladeshi border.

Culturally, it would also include the Malay people of Singapore and Sarawak, Cham people of Cambodia and Vietnam, and other Muslim communities in Southeast Asia.

See also

• Islam in Southeast Asia

References

• Islam in an Era of Nation-States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia, edited by Robert W. Hefner; Patricia Horvatich, University of Hawaii Press, Dec 2007 ISBN 978-0-8248-1957-6
• Barendregt, Bart. 2006. “Nasyid in the Making: Transnational Soundscapes for Muslim Southeast Asia.” in Medi@Asia: Communication, Culture, Context, Holden, T. and T. Scrase (eds.), pp. 171–187, London: Routledge.

External links

• Library resources in your library and in other libraries about Muslim Southeast Asia