MUZUŁMAŃSKA MNIEJSZOŚĆ CZAM W KAMBODŻY – ODRODZENIE PO LUDOBÓJSTWIE

Abstract

The article describes the place of Cham’s Muslim minority in Cambodia as a different ethnic and religious group. Cham people are members of three Muslim groups, who not share the same origin. Nevertheless they suffered the similar fate as the rest of the society during the Khmer Rouge era. As Muslims, Chams were considered a threat to the communist leadership and its policy of collectivization. Despite the fact, that all cultural and material property was destroyed and almost the half of the community was murdered, Chams rebuilt mosques, religious buildings and Koranic schools being supported by Muslim governments from South East Asia and the Middle East. Most Cambodian Muslims consider themselves Shafi’i Sunnis, and followers of the Shafi’i school of Sunni law

Keywords

• islam
• genocide
• ethnic minority
• ethnic group
• chams