Shari'a and Social Engineering the Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia
Title:
Shari'a and Social Engineering the Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia
Author:
Feener, R. Michael.
ISBN:
9780191668067
9780191668074
9780191758072
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxix, 335 pages) : illustrations
Series:
Oxford Islamic Legal Studies
Oxford Islamic legal studies.
Contents:
Introduction -- Islam in visions of Aceh's past (and future) -- Reconfigurations of religious education and authority -- Institutionalizing the Ulama -- The legislation of Islam -- The jurisdiction and jurisprudence of Shari'a courts -- State-directed Dawa and the Shari'a bureaucracy -- Sanctions and socialization -- Shari'a and social engineering.
Abstract:
This book seeks to open new lines of discussion about how Islamic law is viewed as a potential tool for programs of social transformation in contemporary Muslim society. It does this through a critical examination of the workings of the state shari'a system as it was designed and implemented at the turn of the twenty-first century in Aceh, Indonesia. While the empirical details of these discussions are unique, this particular case presents a remarkable site for investigating thebroader issue of the impact of instrumentalist, future-oriented visions of Islamic law on modern Muslim calls for the.
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