Publications

Books

Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Islam, Modernity, and Entrepreneurship among the Malays. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave/Macmillan Press and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Company Rules:  Sharia and its Transgressions in the Malay-Muslim Corporate Workplace,” Journal of Southeast Asian Affairs, May 2018.

“Corporatising the Collection, Resisting, and Paying of Zakat in Contemporary Malaysia.” In Lemiere, Sophie (ed), Illusions of Democracy. SIRD: 2017.

“Interrogating ‘Malayness’: Islamic Transformations among Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) Old Boys,” Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, June 2014.

“Beyond Islamism at Work: ‘Corporate Islam’ in Malaysia,” in Roy, Olivier and Amel Boubekeur (eds), Whatever Happened to the Islamists? New York: Columbia University Press/Hurst, 2013.

“Working in the Islamic Economy,” Sojourn, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 26: 2, 2011. Reprinted in Sojourn 50th Anniversary Supplement 33, S, 2018, Approaches to Research in Southeast Asia–Editors’ Choice of Nine Most Influential Articles

“From Sisters to Sinners in One Generation: The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood.” In Helgren, Jennifer and Colleen A. Vasconcellos (eds), Girlhood: A Global History. Rutgers University Press, 2010.

“Beyond Fifty Years of Political Stability in Malaysia: Rent and the Weapons of the Power Elite,” Patricia Sloane-White and Isabelle Beaulieu. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 30: 1, 2010.

“US and Malaysian Students: Encounters in Modernity.” In Lee, Julian (ed), The Malaysian Way of Life. Tarrytown, NY and London: MarshallCavendish, 2010.

“The Hospitable Middle-Class Muslim Home in Urban Malaysia: A Sociable Site for Economic and Political Action,” in Lynch, Paul; Alison J. McIntosh; and Hazel Tucker (eds), Commercial Homes in Tourism: An International Perspective. London: Routledge, 2009.

“The Ethnography of Failure: Middle-Class Malays Producing Capitalism in an ‘Asian Miracle’ Economy.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 39 : 455-482, 2008.

“Why Malays Travel: Middle-Class Malay Tourism and the Creation of Social Difference and Belonging.” Crossroads: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 18:2, 2007.