Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia Ideas and Institutions

Name: Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia Ideas and Institutions
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ISBN: 9780674025080

ISBN-10: 0674025083

ISBN-13: 9780674025080

Edition: 2007

Authors: R. Michael Feener, Mark E. Cammack, Islamic Legal Studies Program Staff Harvard Law School, Mark E. Cammack, Islamic Legal Studies Program Staff Harvard Law School

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Although often neglected in the literature on Islamic law, contemporary Indonesia is an especially rich source of insight into the diverse understandings and uses of the Islamic legal tradition in the modern world. Indonesian Muslims are engaged in vibrant and far-reaching debates over the terms, relevance, and developmental limits of Islamic law, and Indonesia is home to a variety of dynamic state and non-state institutional structures for the generation and application of Islamic doctrine. The essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional elements of Islamic law in modern Indonesia in its recent formations. The first five…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 325
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650

?Mark E. Cammack is Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School.



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Islamic Law in Indonesia: Formations of a Modern Tradition?




Islamic Legal Thought, Education, and the Production of Fatwas



Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia: Introduction and Overview




Reconsidering Authority: Indonesian Fiqh Texts about Women




Religious Authority, Politics and Fatwas in Contemporary Southeast Asia




Lightning, Angels and Prayers for the Nation: Reading the Fatwas of the Jam'iyah Ahlith Thoriqoh al-Mu'tabaroh




Islamic Law and Institutions Within the Indonesian Legal System



Islamic Law in Court Decisions and Fatwa Institutions in Indonesia




Islamic Divorce Law and Practice in Indonesia




Toward a Just Marriage Law: Empowering Indonesian Women through a Counter Legal Draft to the Indonesian Compilation of Islamic Law




The Indonesian Islamic Judiciary




Fairness and Law in an Indonesian Court




The Politics of Shari'atization: Central Governmental and Regional Discourses of Shari'a Implementation in Aceh




Shari'a Revival in Aceh




Appendix



Islamic Legal Education in Modern Indonesia



Endnotes


Contributors


Glossary


Bibliography


Index