Max Planck Institut für ethnologische Forschung

Publications

Journal Article (2)

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Journal Article

Müller, Dominik. 2017. From consultancy to critique: the 'success story' of globalized zakat management in Malaysia and its normative ambiguities. Globalizations 14(1): 81–98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1200309.

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Journal Article

Müller, Dominik. 2017. Brunei Darussalam in 2016: the Sultan is not amused. Asian Survey 57(1): 199–205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2017.57.1.199.

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Book Chapter (2)

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Book Chapter

Beránek, Ondrêj and Dominik Müller. 2017. Die staatliche Verfolgung von Magiern in Brunei Darussalam und Saudi-Arabien. In: Susanne Schröter (ed.). Normenkonflikte in pluralistischen Gesellschaften. Normative Orders: Schriften des Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main 21. Frankfurt/Main; New York: Campus, pp. 291–324.

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Book Chapter

Müller, Dominik. 2017. Ummah revisited: anti-Shia hatred in Malaysia since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. In: Sophie Lemière (ed.). Illusions of democracy: Malaysian politics and people. Petaling Jaya: Selangor, pp. 137–159.

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Working Paper (1)

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Working Paper

Müller, Dominik. 2017. The bureaucratization of Islam and its socio-legal dimensions in Southeast Asia: conceptual contours of a research project. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 187. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Book Review (1)

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Book Review

Müller, Dominik. 2017. Taming the wild: aborigines and racial knowledge in colonial Malaya by Khor Manickam, S. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 18(1): 93–95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1162125.

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Film (1)

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Film

Müller, Dominik. 2017. How has the Islamic party of Malaysia’s stance towards popular culture evolved? 12:21 min.

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Contact

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Forthcoming Publications

Encyclopedia entry (accepted, in print 2019): "Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS)". Enyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: Brill.

Encyclopedia entry (accepted, in print 2019): "Malaysia" (co-authored with Tímea Gréta Biró). Enyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: Brill.

Encyclopedia entry (invited, forthcoming 2019): "Masjid Negara" (co-authored with Fauwaz Abdul Aziz). Enyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: Brill.

Encyclopedia entry (invited, forthcoming 2019): "Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia" (co-authored with Fauwaz Abdul Aziz). Enyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: Brill.

Book Chapter (invited, forthc. 2020): “Islam in Brunei Darussalam“, Routledge Handbook of Islam in Southeast Asia (ed.: Khairudin Aljunied). Abingdon: Routledge.

Book Chapter (invited, forthc. 2020): “Islam, Law and the State“, Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology (ed.: Marie-Claire Foblets et al.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Outreach

Inside the silent nation of Brunei, BBC (10 May 2019)

Western boycotts soften Brunei’s sharia law, Asia Times (7 May 2019)

Pengalaman, pendekatan S'pura urus agama dikongsi di Harvard (=Singapore’s Experience and Approach to Religious Administration Presented at Harvard), Berita Harian (Singapore's leading Malay-speaking newspaper), p. 10 (2 May 2019)

What international criticism of Brunei’s harsh new penal code overlooks, World Politics Review (2 May 2019)

Le Pietre Del Sultano, Grazia, p. 50 (May 2019)

Brunei once held off on strict Islamic Law to stay in a U.S. backed trade pact. Then Trump pulled out, Washington Post (12 April 2019)

Der Sultan droht mit dem Schwert, Spiegel Online (29 March 2019)

How Islamic Does Brunei want to be?, Asia Times (23 April 2018)

How has the Islamic Party of Malaysia's stance towards popular culture evolved?, Latest Thinking (Academic Video Interview, 2017)

Eine Krise der Politik, nicht der Flüchtlinge, UniReport 1-2017, p. 12 (Journal, Goethe University Frankfurt)

New Article on Sharia Law in Brunei by former ASC Visiting Scholar, St Antony's College, Oxford (Online, 29 March 2016)

Südostasien im Visier des IS (English version: Terror attacks spotlight growing 'IS' threat in Southeast Asia), Deutsche Welle (German version: 30 June 2015, English version: 14 January 2016))

Reflections: Islamists’ pop culture: Oley - Hudud Allah, Review of Lecture given at SOAS, University of London, Monsoons Book Club, London (Online, 5 June 2015)

Award for Visiting Academic Dominik Müller, St Antony's College, Oxford (Online, 24 May 2015)

Vom „digitalen Faustrecht“ und anderen Herausforderungen: Jahreskonferenz des Exzellenzclusters „Normative Orders“: Blick auf Mode und Islamismus im Pop-Gewand, UniReport 1-2015, p. 5 (Journal, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Auf einmal wird der Playboy fromm, Die Welt (14 May 2014), reprinted in Berliner Morgenpost

Sultan der Steinzeit: Der einst reichste Mann der Welt will in seinem Land die Scharia durchsetzen, Welt am Sonntag, p. 15 (11 May 2014)

Heavy Metal zum Lobe Allahs: Der Frankfurter Ethnologe Dominik Müller hat in Malaysia das Phänomen des Pop-Islamismus studiert, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ Rhein-Main, Hochschule, p. 44 (Newspaper, 22 April 2014)

2013 visiting scholar Dominik Müller's book on Malaysia just published, FSI News, Stanford (Online, 8 April 2014)

Vollstrecker des göttlichen Willens, Süddeutsche Zeitung, p. 10 (26 October 2013), reprinted in Berner Zeitung and Tagesanzeiger, Switzerland

Der Islam im modernen Gewand: Der politische Islam und die Popkultur, Deutschlandfunk (Radio Interview, 3 October 2013)

Die E-Gitarre als Missionsinstrument: Fragen an den Ethnologen Dr. Dominik Müller zum Post- und Pop-Islamismus in Malaysia, UniReport 5-2013, p. 9 (Journal Interview, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Das moderne Asien, Herder / Christ in der Gegenwart (Journal, 12/2011)