Articles by Shakila Yacob

New Silk Road? Malaysia-Kazakhstan’s Next Chapter in Religious Governance

From the ancient days of the Silk Road—when merchants, scholars and adventurers wove a tapestry of trade and cultural exchange between Central Asia and the Malay Archipelago—to the modern era of global connectivity, history is calling once again. These historical ties were severed under Soviet rule but rekindled after the USSR’s dissolution. In 1992, under…