The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951-2013

A historical recount on the development of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS and how it rose to become the most prominent Islamist party in Southeast Asia.

Farish A. Noor is Professor of Political History at the Faculty of Social Science FOSS, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia UIII. His work has focused on 19th century colonial Southeast Asia, looking at the modalities of racialised colonial-capitalism in the region. His recent works include Peta dan Kekuasaan (Mapping and Power, Lestari Hikmah, 2025), Data-Collecting in 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and America's Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).

Introduction, Islamism in a Mottled Nation: The Story of PAS, Where and When We Are: Locating PAS in Today's Overdetermined and Highly Contested Malaysia, 1 1951-1969: The Orphan of the Cold War, 2 From Internationalism to Communitarianism, 3 PAS in the Global Islamist Wave: 1982-1999, 4 The Jihad of the Ballot Box, 5. Religion, Politics, Islam, Islamism, Bibliography, Index