Policymakers’ logic on Islamic banking: Islamic banking as an ethno-political tool in Malaysia

Social scientists have long sought to understand what Islamic banking is. This study seeks to answer this question by exploring the neoliberalisation process of Islamic banking policies in Malaysia and identifying policymakers’ logic behind this process. For this purpose, this study conducted interv...

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主要作者: Kitamura, Hideki (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Sage Publishing August 2021
In: Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs
Year: 2021, 卷: 40, 發布: 2, Pages: 245-265
Further subjects:B Kreditpolitik
B 新自由主義
B 伊斯蘭銀行
B 板凳
B 民族中心主義
B Malaysia
B 原因
B 民族主義
B 中央银行
B 伊斯蘭教
B 貨幣政策
B Nationalitätenpolitik
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總結:Social scientists have long sought to understand what Islamic banking is. This study seeks to answer this question by exploring the neoliberalisation process of Islamic banking policies in Malaysia and identifying policymakers’ logic behind this process. For this purpose, this study conducted interviews with actors associated with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the central bank of Malaysia. The findings demonstrate that, in the neoliberal era, BNM quietly and continuously pursued the goal of preferably giving economic opportunities to Malay Muslims by establishing institutional mechanisms rather than by offering preferential treatment in a straightforward manner. The Shariah nature of Islamic banking served to conceal this goal from the public. I define Islamic banking as an ethno-political tool rather than simply as a religious economy and contend that the philosophy of Islamic banking as a moral economy conceals an agenda of protecting Malay interests. (JCSA/GIGA)
ISSN:1868-4882
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of current Southeast Asian affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1868103420972406