Ambassador Mohammad Alami Musa
Ambassador Mohammad Alami Musa
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Biography
Ambassador Mohammad Alami Musa is Adjunct Senior Fellow at RSIS. He is concurrently Singapore’s non-resident Ambassador to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. Amb Alami also holds the appointment of President of MUIS Council (Islamic Religious Council of Singapore) and Singapore’s Honorary Business Representative for Middle East and North Africa.
As a keen observer of Muslim development in multi-cultural societies, he was deeply involved in the Singapore Muslim Identity project, conceptualising, developing, writing and presenting seminars about the issue of identity of minority Muslim community in a secular, multi-religious and culturally diverse society. He is an active promoter of positive inter religious relations in Singapore and the region. He was involved in the research on Islam and its relations with other religions and the Religious Other. Regionally, Amb Alami was instrumental to start up efforts to promote Inter-Religious Relations.
Amb Alami studied Engineering in the University of Singapore. He proceeded to obtain his Master in Engineering from the same University.
Areas of Expertise
- Interreligious Relations, Dialogue & the Religious Other
- Muslim Identity Formation in Plural Societies
- Muslims in Secular States
Professional Activities
- Non Excutive President of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria and IE Singapore’s Honorary Business Representative for Middle-East/ North Africa region
RSIS Publications
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WP305 | Engaging Religion with Pragmatism: The Singapore State’s Management of Social Issues and Religious Tensions in the 1980s
21 August, 2017
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The Decline of Secularism
23 June, 2023
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Ethnic Enclaves and Multi-Culturalism
10 April, 2023
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Demography-Religion Nexus: Tipping Point for Societal Norms
03 June, 2022
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Social Cohesion: Adapting Secularism and Multiculturalism
30 May, 2022
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CO18052 | Religious Harmony: Stop the Tolerance, Start Appreciating
23 March, 2018
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CO18023 | When Modernity Helps Fuel Fundamentalism
14 February, 2018
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C015165 | ‘Non-Zero Sum’ Mindset in Inter-Faith Relations
05 August, 2015
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CO15139 | Demolishing the Islamic State Myth: Defeating the propaganda of ISIS
12 June, 2015
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CO15007 | Islam and Buddhism: Preserving Harmonious Relations
08 January, 2015
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CO14145 | Christian-Muslim Relations: Critical for Religious Harmony
23 July, 2014
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CO14103 | Hudud and Inter-Religious Relations
30 May, 2014
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CO14036 | Has Religion Become Evil?
19 February, 2014
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CO13206 | Allah: For Muslims Only?
06 November, 2013
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CO13176 | Funding Mosque Building in Singapore: A Legacy of Mr Lee Kuan Yew
26 September, 2013
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Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 15 - Secularism in Singapore: Asatizah’s Perspectives on its Reconcilability with Islam by Mohammad Alami Musa and Nursheila Muez
06 April, 2020
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Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 3 - Islam and Secularism in Singapore: Between Embracement and Belief
01 April, 2019
Working Papers
Commentaries
Interreligious Relations
External Publications
Last updated on 02/10/2023