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id	eprints-31062
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	At the start of his outstanding new book, Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia to a comparison of Malaysia, Pakistan, and Egypt. As one with an interest in both Malaysia and Pakistan, I read his book with that ambition in mind. Specifically, I read Moustafa’s new book as an account of the ways in which a particular country’s constitutional tension between “individual” and “group-based” religious freedoms has been legally and politically operationalized. In my reading, Moustafa’s account is not limited to Malaysia; the experience of Malaysia is also tied to the constitutional experience of South Asia.
format	Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs
author	Nelson, Matthew J.
author_facet	Nelson, Matthew J.
authorStr	Nelson, Matthew J.
author_letter	Nelson, Matthew J.
title	Constituting Religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31062/