| Description |
xvi, 289 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Village repertoires -- 1. Law, religion, and pluralism -- 2. Adat's local inequalities -- 3. Remapping adat -- Pt. 2. Reasoning legally through scripture -- 4. The contours of the courts -- 5. The judicial history of "consensus" -- 6. The poisoned gift -- 7. Historicizing scripture, justifying equality -- Pt. 3. Governing Muslims through family -- 8. Whose word is law? -- 9. Gender equality in the family? -- 10. Justifying religious boundaries -- 11. Public reasoning across cultural pluralism |
| Summary |
In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including those derived from Islam, local social norms, and contemporary ideas about gender equality and rule of law. Explores this struggle, through archival and ethnographic research in villages and courtrooms of the Aceh Province, Sumatra, and through interviews with national religious and legal figures. Also analyses the social frameworks for disputes about land, inheritance, marriage, divorce, Islamic History and, more broadly, about the relationships between the state and Islam, and between Muslims and non-Muslims. Speaks to debates carried out in all societies about how people can live together with their deep differences in values and ways of life |
| Analysis |
Indonesia |
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Cultural conflict |
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Customary law |
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Family law |
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Islamic law |
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Social conditions |
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Social customs |
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Aceh |
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Equal opportunities |
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Pluralism |
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Rural areas |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Domestic relations -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
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Islamic law -- Indonesia -- Interpretation and construction -- History.
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Gayo (Indonesian people) -- Politics and government.
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Law -- Indonesia -- Sumatra.
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Cultural pluralism -- Indonesia -- Sumatra.
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Adat law -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
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Domestic relations -- Indonesia -- Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam -- Case studies
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Adat law -- Indonesia -- Aceh.
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Domestic relations -- Indonesia -- Aceh -- Case studies.
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Islamic law -- Indonesia.
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Legal polycentricity -- Indonesia.
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| SUBJECT |
Aceh (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80049521 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
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Sumatra (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130407 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| LC no. |
2002034938 |
| ISBN |
0521824826 hardback |
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0521531896 paperback |
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