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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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INTERVIEW: Why there are grounds for optimism in Indonesia, even in an age of global democratic regression

  • Professor Robert Hefner,

What’s the state of Indonesian democracy after two years of COVID-19? Will the pandemic’s pressures result in a resurgence of Islamist groups?

How the law in the Maldives paved the way for a Sunni legal tradition

  • Dr Shamsul Falaah,

It could be argued that Sunni Islam has been predominantly practised in the Maldives since the earliest written Islamic history.

Peaceful interreligious relations in Islam derive from covenants and treaties

  • Associate Professor Halim Rane,

The Qur’an and covenants of Prophet Muhammad seek to regulate interreligious relations in peace and security.

Afghanistan’s laws and legal institutions under the Taliban

  • Assistant Professor Haroun Rahimi,

For the Taliban, the state’s main purpose is not protecting individual rights, but making individuals honor their obligations.

Islamophobia in Singapore and/ vs Western Islamophobia: the state, colonialism, and the Muslim experience

  • Associate Professor Paul Hedges,

In Singapore there exists a different kind of Islamophobia to that in countries with a Christian cultural heritage.

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