2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
“Islamic” TV Dramas, Malay Youth, and Pious Visions for Malaysia
verfasst von : Timothy P. Daniels
Erschienen in: Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Islamic proselytizers—Muslim nongovernmental organizations, the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS, Parti Islam SeMalaysia), and the UMNO (United Malays National Organization)-led federal government—have exerted a major influence on the public sphere over the past three decades. Their dakwah (proselytizing) movements and campaigns infused the public sphere and everyday life with diffuse images and expressions of piety. These diverse efforts precipitated the emergence of a “Muslim cultural sphere”—artistic and cultural discussions and expressions of “religiously inflected voices and visions”—within the broader public sphere (Nieuwkerk 2011:4). Religious-oriented websites, magazines, singing (nasyid) groups, and radio and television programs constitute this expanding Muslim cultural sphere in Malaysia. Nasyid boy bands, prevalent in Malaysia and Indonesia (see Barendregt 2011), were joined by Maher Zain, a Swedish ethnic-Lebanese singer who became a popular heartthrob in Malaysia with the release of his first compact disc Thank You Allah in 2009. His CD, containing pious Islamic messages cast in a variety of global pop styles, was widely distributed in Malaysia and he appeared in several live performances and magazines. Even Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza, the most prominent Malay pop star of this era, released her most religious compact disc Tahajjud Cinta in 2009, featuring her singing the ninety-nine names of Allah and praises for Prophet Muhammad.