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- Title: Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Buddhist-Muslim Relations and Coexistence in Southern Thailand: From Shared Cosmos to the Emergence of Hatred?
- Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 260 KB
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The landscape of the northern part of peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand is characterized by extreme cultural complexity and ethnic diversity, incorporating influences from China, India, and Persia, Turkey, and from the Middle East. Patani in Thailand and Kelantan on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia are known as bastions of Islamic civilization. Less known is the reciprocal hybridization and inter-penetration of Buddhist and Islamic cosmologies in the cultural landscape of northern peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. The tradition of pre-Islamic Hinduism is also shared in the ritual life of Thai and Malay groups. Wayang kulit in Kelantan, and manora and hang talung in Nakhon Si Thammarat are examples of the common Indian tradition in performing arts on both sides of the Thai-Malaysian border. In academic representation of southern Thailand, few scholars were interested in inter-religious coexistence. Chaiwat argues in his "Patani in the 1980s" that much of the literature on Patani was carved as political stories rather than objective research (Chaiwat 1994). Much of the literature on southern Thailand (and state discourse at various levels) presented Muslims in South Thailand as a homogenous group. The main question was the various degrees to which Muslims as a minority community were integrating successfully into the Thai-Buddhist-dominant "host" society.
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