Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism

by Arskal Salim

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748693335
• ISBN13: 9780748693337
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"