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Muslims in Thailand and Burma

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Thailand and Burma are Theravada Buddhist majority countries located at the Southeast Asian mainland. Thailand is a monarchy. Burma is a procedural democracy in which the military is politically powerful. Both have significant Muslim minorities. Prior to the establishment of colonial rule in Burma and the rise of modern nationalism in Thailand, Muslims were incorporated into traditional Theravada Buddhist state systems. In the modern era, both also have histories of ethno-religious insurgencies and the repression of Muslim minorities.

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Woodward, M., Scupin, R. (2021). Muslims in Thailand and Burma. In: Lukens-Bull, R., Woodward, M. (eds) Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73653-2_26-1

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