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Islamic Modern Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia

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ISBN-10: 0691095078

ISBN-13: 9780691095073

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael G. Peletz

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Providing ethnographic, historical, and transnational perspectives on contemporary Islam in the shifting landscape of Malaysia, a strategically important region of the world, this text seeks to enhance our understanding of diversity among and within the world's Muslim communities.
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Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

List of Maps
List of Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling, Terminology, and Currency
Introduction
Background and Context
Methods
The Culture, Political Economy, and History of the Islamic Courts
Locating Islamic Magistrates and Their Courts in History
Islamic Magistrates, Islamic Courts, and Islamic Law through the 1830s
Colonial Representations of Islamic Magistrates and Their Courts, 1840s-1880s
The Reorganization and Rationalization of the Courts, 1890s-1980s
The Work of the Courts
Background and Setting
Domains and Jurisdictions
Operations
The Cultural Logic of Judicial Process
Litigant Strategies and Patterns of Resistance
Women's Strategies and Experiences
Men's Strategies and Experiences
Patterns of Resistance and Oppositional Discourses
Modernity and Governmentality in Islamic Courts and Other Domains
Reinscribing Authenticity and Identity
What's There and What's Not: The Said, the Unsaid, and the Unwritten
Reinscribing Authenticity and Identity
Rationalization and Resistance Revisited
Producing Good Subjects, "Asian Values," and New Types of Criminality
A Note on Gender Pluralism, Transgender Practices, and the Long Duree
Narratives of "Asian Values" and the Rise of Social Intolerance
New Types of Criminality: Azizah, Anwar, and Beyond
Conclusion: Islam, Modernity, and Civil Society
Kinship Matters in the Dialectics of Civil Society and the State
Back to the Malaysian Future
Notes
Glossary of Frequently Used Malay Terms
Bibliography
Index