Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia

Sharia and Legal Pluralism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Arskal Salim, University of Western Sydney) Salim, Arskal (Senior Research Lecturer

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This ethnographic account of legal pluralism in the simultaneously post-conflict and disaster situation in Aceh studies what is probably the fastest changing legal system in the Muslim world. Addressing changes in both the national legal system of Indonesia and the regional legal structure in the province of Aceh, it focuses on the encounter between diverse patterns of legal reasoning advocated by multiple actors or put forward by different institutions (local, national and international; official and unofficial; or judicial, political and social cultural) attendant to the vast array of issues arising in the wake of the December 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Aceh. As well as covering disputes about rights to land and other forms of property, it also investigates disputes about power relations, the conflict of rules, gender relationships, the right to make decisions, and prevailing norms. It presents disputes on multiple levels and in various forums, either through negotiation or adjudication, regardless of whether they are settled or not. The cases involve various actors from villages, the courts, the provincial government and the legislature, the national Supreme Court and the central government of Indonesia.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-02-10
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExploring Muslim Contexts
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748693337

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Arskal Salim is Senior Lecturer at the Religion and Society Research Centre of the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London and Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. He received his PhD from Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. His research interests cross anthropology and law, with a particular focus on the legal ethnography of Muslim societies, Islamic and comparative Law, human rights, Islam in Indonesia, and property disputes in Aceh. He has published on the colonial and Indonesian policies on Islamic alms or zakat (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal) and the contested plural legal orders of contemporary Aceh (Journal of Legal Pluralism). He is the author of Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Laws in Modern Indonesia (2008).

Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Diagrams and Tables; Maps; Introduction; Part I: Between Orders and Jurisdictions;1. Unpacking legal pluralism; 2. Shifting legal orders; 3. Competing jurisdictions; Part II. Between Justice and Rights: 4. Unequal legal options; 5. Contested lawmaking; 6. Disputed land ownership; Part III. Between Villages and Courtrooms; 7. Orphaned grandchildren; 8. Insurance benefits; 9.Triple divorce; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix I: The population of Aceh in 2010 based on religious affiliation; Appendix II: The result of the 2014 provincial legislative election in Aceh; Appendix III: Abbreviations and Glossary; Index.