Shari'a and social engineering : the implementation of Islamic law in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia / R. Michael Feener
- Author
- Feener, R. Michael
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Da'wa 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 Aceh -- Modernizing 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 Da'wa 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 Deviance -- The 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 Shari'a Legislation -- A New Islamic Criminal Code -- 6.The Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence of Shari'a 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 Courts -- Criminal Cases -- An Office Affair -- 7.State-Directed Da'wa and the Shari'a Bureaucracy -- Islamic Law and Instrumentalism -- The Making of a Shari'a Bureaucracy -- The State Shari'a Agency (DSI) -- Tight Trousers, Free Skirts, and District-Level Public Morality Measures -- Publication and Propagation -- The "Socialization" of the Shari'a -- Da'wa Discourse and the DSI -- Syiar Islam and a Shari'a Society -- Challenges and Limits to State Shari'a -- 8.Sanctions and Socialization -- Policing the Shari'a -- The Wilayatul Hisbah [WH] -- Staffing -- Resources -- The Work of the WH -- Caning -- Physical Punishment and Public Pedagogy -- Vigilantism -- Local Custom and Community Policing -- Whither the WH? -- 9.Shari'a and Social Engineering -- Building a "New Aceh" -- Post-Tsunami Religious Revival -- Constructing a New "Shari'a System" for Indonesian Aceh -- The "Living Law" -- Legal Instrumentalism and the Technocrats -- Modern Transformations of Muslim Jurisprudence -- Issues of Implementation -- Social Engineering -- State Shari'a and Social Change.
- Summary
- 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 - that of post-tsunami Aceh.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191758072 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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