Shari'a and social engineering : the implementation of Islamic law in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia /
Arguing for new consideration of calls for implementation of Islamic law as projects of future-oriented social transformation, this book presents a critical overview of the day-to-day workings of one of the most complex experiments with the implementation of Islamic law in the contemporary world - t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford Islamic legal studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Illustrations; Permissions; 1. Introduction; 2. Islam in Visions of Aceh's Past (and Future); Sumatran Sultanates; New Dynamics of Localization; "Holy War" and Worldly Power Struggles; Contesting Visions of Islam; Aceh, Islam, and the Indonesian Republic; Aceh and Islam under Indonesia's New Order; Dawa and Development; Acehnese Visions of Islam and Independence; Islam and Social Control; The Great Wave and Its Wake; 3. Reconfigurations of Religious Education and Authority
- Traditions of Islamic Education in AcehModernizing Muslim Schools; State Appropriations of Islamic Education; Further Redefinitions of Acehnese Dayahs; Higher Islamic Education in Aceh; IAIN Alumni and the Islamic Legal System; State Policy and Dawa Ideals in Modern Muslim Higher Education; 4. Institutionalizing the Ulama; The Formation of Aceh's Ulama Council; Indonesian Islam and Acehnese Separatism; The Majlis Permusyawaratan Ulama (MPU); Islamic Law as Education; Fatwas and Other Advice; Rulings on Religion and Society; Sufism and Its Malcontents
- Defending Islam against Threats of DevianceThe Ulama, Islamic Education, and Social Engineering; 5. The Legislation of Islam; Islam and Law in Modern Indonesia; Early Islamic Legislation in Aceh; Islamic Legislation under Indonesia's "New Order"; Islamic Law and Special Autonomy; Post-Conflict Sharia Legislation; A New Islamic Criminal Code; 6. The Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence of Sharia Courts; The State Administration of Islamic Law in Aceh; Colonial Re-Configurations of Islamic Courts; Independent Indonesia's Religious Courts; Points of Reference; Physical Facilities
- The Work of the CourtsCriminal Cases; An Office Affair; 7. State-directed Dawa and the Sharia Bureaucracy; Islamic Law and Instrumentalism; The Making of a Sharia Bureaucracy; The State Sharia Agency (DSI); Tight Trousers, Free Skirts, and District-Level Public Morality Measures; Publication and Propagation; The "Socialization" of the Sharia; Dawa Discourse and the DSI; Syiar Islam and a Sharia Society; Challenges and Limits to State Sharia; 8. Sanctions and Socialization; Policing the Sharia; The Wilayatul Hisbah (WH); Staffing; Resources; The Work of the WH; Caning
- Physical Punishment and Public PedagogyVigilantism; Local Custom and Community Policing; Whither the WH?; 9. Sharia and Social Engineering; Building a "New Aceh"; Post-Tsunami Religious Revival; Constructing a New "Sharia System" for Indonesian Aceh; The "Living Law"; Legal Instrumentalism and the Technocrats; Modern Transformations of Muslim Jurisprudence; Issues of Implementation; Social Engineering; State Sharia and Social Change; Appendix I: Abbreviations and Glossary; Appendix II: Chronology of Events1; Appendix III: Key Analytical Terms; References; Index; Footnotes; preffn; acknowfn