Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and their experience of long-term unending pains: aspects of human rights problem

Abdullah @ Chuah Hock Leng, Osman and Fatah Yasin, Raudlotul Firdaus and Muhamad Shukri, Abdul Salam and Zulkipli, Fakhrullah (2018) Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and their experience of long-term unending pains: aspects of human rights problem. In: Contemporary issues on Islamic thought. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 440-458. ISBN 9789674910082

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Abstract

Rohingya is an ethnic minority group that used to live in the Arakan belt of South East Burma bordering in the east with Thailand and in the North West with Bangladesh. Rohingya is the Muslim of Sunni followers and have been migrated from India for about a thousand years after the collapsed of Muslim empire from India. There are about 750,000 Muslims living in the Rakhine state and another one million living in the various parts of the world in United Kingdom, United States of America, Europe, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. The location of the Rohingya concentration is of Arakan belt in South East Burma. This Rohingya is a minority group most persecuted violently and most unwanted people by the Burmese Buddhists in their country. According to some historical facts, Rohingyan is the native people of Rakhine state. Others said that they are immigrants from Bangladesh. There are some mentioned that when the Muslim India collapsed, they migrated to the Arakan belt (Simpson 2007: 267).

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Additional Information:	6849/63750
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Rohingya Muslims; Myanmar; experience of long-term unending pains
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Qur’an and Sunnah Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion
Depositing User:	Dr Raudlotul Firdaus Fatah Yasin
Date Deposited:	23 May 2018 09:14
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2019 10:14
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/63750

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