Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays

Abstract

Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays is the result of nearly four years of research conducted between January of 1993 and January of 1998, on entrepreneurship, networking, and corporate culture among the middle- and upper-middle-class Malay population of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The book is an analysis of an initial period of fieldwork (from 1993 to 1995). It is the first in-depth anthropological study of Malay Muslim enterprise and entrepreneurial culture since the inception of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in Malaysia in 1970, a systematic programme intended to develop the economic skills of Malays in an ethnically diverse nation after the ethnic riots in 1969.