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Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions
R. Michael Feener (Ed.)
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Description for Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions
Hardback. Contains essays that examines the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional elements of Islamic law in modern Indonesia. This book addresses issues relating to Islamic legal theory, both its historical development over the past Century and analysis of the work of specific groups of contemporary scholars, jurists, and activists. Editor(s): Feener, R. Michael; Cammack, Mark E. Series: Harvard Series in Islamic Law. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 738.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Series in Islamic Law
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674025080
SKU
V9780674025080
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About R. Michael Feener (Ed.)
R. Michael Feener is Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Mark E. Cammack is Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School.
Reviews for Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions
The book is a collection of well-written chapters analyzing Islamic law and society in the world's most populous Muslim state. In addition to contributing to Islamic legal studies, the volume includes highly accessible chapters that could be incorporated into undergraduate or graduate syllabi...A number of chapters deserve wide circulation. Overall, the volume is a welcome contribution to scholarship on Islamic ... Read more