Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Map -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Part 1 Village repertoires -- 1 Law, religion, and pluralism -- Repertoires of reasoning -- Justification and social norms -- Islamic sociolegal reasoning -- The possibility of Islamic public reasoning -- Indonesian pluralism -- Adat and community -- Shari'a and jurisprudence -- The boundaries of state law -- Re-understanding Islam -- Studying multilevel phenomena -- 2 Adat's local inequalities -- Disentangling norms in practice -- "Legal pluralism" recognized -- A necessary subterfuge -- Engendered inequalities in Isak -- The elder brother's power -- Use-rights versus the army -- 3 Remapping adat -- Person, place, and property -- The creation of "adat law" -- Islam only when "received" -- Adat, revolution, autonomy -- A national adat? -- Judges and justice -- Adat as "not-the-state" -- Part 2 Reasoning legally through scripture -- 4 The contours of the courts -- Islam as displacement -- A tale of two courts -- The settings -- The social movement of judges -- Jurisdiction and procedure -- Women against men in the courts -- 5 The judicial history of "consensus" -- Delicate judicial politics, 1945-1960s -- Caught between norms -- The struggle for recognition -- Fluid boundaries -- Affirming consensus in the 1960s -- Avoiding conflict over norms -- Inventing adat -- Inspecting consensus: the assumptions behind the decisions -- Double-voiced claims -- Aman Nurjati's lands once more -- Hierarchy and economy since the 1970s -- Money and movement -- An Islamic critique of marriage -- Suspecting consensus: the Islamic court in the 1990s -- 6 The poisoned gift -- Gifts contra fairness -- Suspected coercion -- The apple of discord -- Limiting the gift: a step backwards?.

Narrative structure and the Supreme Court's justification -- Fairness and agreement as social norms -- Inheritance and Islam in Minangkabau society -- 7 Historicizing scripture, justifying equality -- Fairness across gender and generations -- The fiqh of 'Umar -- Epistemology and narrative style -- Fairness as God's asymptote -- Must women receive half? -- The hypocrisy of the ulama -- The textual limit to reinterpretation -- Contextualizing in practice -- Part 3 Governing Muslims through family -- 8 Whose word is law? -- Islam and/in the state? -- The Jakarta Charter -- Courts out of balance -- Controlling marriage -- Is marriage religious or secular? -- What makes a marriage valid? -- Two views of legal uniformity -- Positivizing shari'a -- Top-down "consensus" -- Contesting ijma'? -- The plight of orphaned grandchildren -- May daughters inherit all? -- 9 Gender equality in the family? -- Towards equal agency in divorce -- Equivalent categories -- Divorce initiated by women -- Divorce by ransom -- Moral discourses of divorce -- Creating "marital property" -- When does wealth begin? -- Turning practice into Islamic law -- Difficulties of proof -- Equality and polygamy? -- 10 Justifying religious boundaries -- Separating by fatwa -- Shari'a in Aceh -- Pigs and enzymes -- Conversion and Christmas -- Freedom of religion: choice or boundary-maintenance? -- Policing intermarriage -- Tightening the rules -- State-marriage-religion -- Marriage according to what religion? -- 11 Public reasoning across cultural pluralism -- Irreducible pluralism -- Elements of Indonesian public reasoning -- Political theory and cultural pluralism -- Liberal political theory -- Creating a modus vivendi -- Taking account of internal debates -- References -- Index.