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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Ethnic Groups Research Database |
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| Subject |
Yunnanese Muslim,Pakistani Muslim,Structure,History of Communities,Islamic Identity,Chiang Mai |
| Author |
Suthep Soonthornpasuch |
| Title |
Islamic Identity in Chiang Mai City: A Historical and Structural Composition of Two Communities |
| Document Type |
Ph.D. Dissertation |
Original Language of Text |
English |
| Ethnic Identity |
Malayu, Ore Nayu, Malayu Muslim, Muslim Malayu,
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Language and Linguistic Affiliations |
Not specified. |
Location of
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Pridi Bhanomyong Library,Thammasat University |
Total Pages |
247 |
Year |
1977 |
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University Microfilms International Ann Arbor,Michigan,USA,1983 |
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Pakistani and Yunnanese Muslim in Chiang Mai is a group of people who have different origin, migration history as well as society and culture. The Pakistani and Yunnanese Muslim always claim their homeland in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Yunnan as cultural and religious heritages which they adhere to Islam assertion and ethnical members, even they have never been back their homeland. Chiang Mai or Thailand is a place they are boundary. (p. 222) To maintain the Islamic identity in Chiang Mai is from the internal needs among Muslim in order to be successful and socially accepted within the same ethnicity. (p. 221). However, they are Thai citizen, so from the present situation, in the future, Muslim in Chiang Mai will be integrated with the Local Northern Thai society in terms of political participation, economy and politic in the meantime they can maintain their Islamic identity. (p.225)
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