Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh (Islam in Southeast Asia: Views from Within) - Softcover

Bustamam-Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9749511093 ISBN 13: 9789749511091

Publisher: Silkworm Books, 2010

Synopsis

This monograph examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, the study compares and contrasts the collective experience of trying to apply Islamic law in these two locations.

In both Kelantan and Aceh, Islamic law was first developed in the thirteenth century with the coming of Islam to the region, but was later replaced by colonial legal systems, and then by the jurisprudence of national governments following independence. Reinstituting Islamic law has become a dominant political issue in both countries.

Through an analysis of the conditions that have made the emergence of Islamic law in Kelantan and Aceh possible, the author helps extend previous studies on this issue by providing a sociological understanding of religious law as a source of both conflict and identity.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Provides a sociological understanding of religious law as a source of both conflict and identity by considering the reintroduction of Islamic Law in Malaysia and Indonesia.

About the Author:

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad is a PhD student at La Trobe University, Australia, researching Islamic revivalism and radicalism in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Wajah Baru Islam di Indonesia [New Images of Islam in Indonesia] (UII Press, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Silkworm Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9749511093
• ISBN 13: 9789749511091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88