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 "label": {
  "en": "ISEAS Perspective 2025/81 — Malaysia's celebrity ustazahs (Asma' Harun, Norhafizah Musa)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "دراسة موجزة لمعهد ISEAS ⁦(بورسبكتيف 2025/81)⁩ بقلم محمد فايزال موسى، 29 أكتوبر 2025، عن القاعدة الجماهيرية على وسائل التواصل لداعيات ماليزيا المشهورات؛ فيها 1.1 مليون متابع لأسماء هارون ومليون متابع لنور حفيظة موسى على إنستغرام، وسيرتاهما وبرامجهما ومشروعاتهما التجارية والتعليمية ومواقفهما المعلنة.",
  "en": "ISEAS Perspective 2025/81 by Mohd Faizal Musa, 29 October 2025, a preliminary study of the social-media power base of Malaysia's celebrity ustazahs; it gives Asma' Harun 1.1 million and Norhafizah Musa 1 million Instagram followers, with their biographies, programmes, commercial and educational projects, and reported public positions."
 },
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  "type": "web",
  "title": "A Preliminary Study of the Social Media Power Base of Malaysia's Celebrity Ustazahs",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Musa",
    "given": "Mohd Faizal"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     11,
     4
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, ISEAS Perspective 2025/81, published 29 October 2025, as read on 4 November 2026",
  "URL": "https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-perspective/2025-81-a-preliminary-study-of-the-social-media-power-base-of-malaysias-celebrity-ustazahs-by-mohd-faizal-musa/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Peer-reviewed institute research brief (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute; the author is a Visiting Senior Fellow at ISEAS and a Research Fellow at the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization, National University of Malaysia), based on ten months of observation (November 2023–September 2024) and follower interviews; the full text was also read in the issue PDF. Its follower figures are the study's own counts at the time of writing and are used only as dated audience figures. Its political readings are the author's analysis — for example the claim that Asma' Harun's content indirectly encourages support for a scholar-led party — and are recorded as attributed positions, never as the museum's findings. The harvest brief cited this material as 'ISEAS Perspective 2026/2 (13 January 2026)'; that number belongs to a different ISEAS piece by the same author, and the ustazah figures are from this 2025/81 issue, which is what is registered here.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Wonder)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}