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Living Sharia

Law and Practice in Malaysia
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among Muslims and non-Muslims. Timothy Daniels explores how the way people think about sharia is often entangled with notions about race, gender equality, nationhood, liberal pluralism, citizenship, and universal human rights. He reveals that Malaysians’ ideas about sharia are not isolated from—nor always opposed to—liberal pluralism and secularism.

Living Sharia will be of interest to scholars as well as to policy makers, consultants, and professionals working with global NGOs.

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Contributor: Timothy P. Daniels Timothy P. Daniels is associate professor in anthropology at Hofstra University. He is the author of Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Islamic Spectrum in Java (Ashgate, 2009), and Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia: Identity, Representation, and Citizenship (Routledge, 2005). --- Contributor: Laurie J. Sears Laurie J. Sears is the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington. She is the author of several books, including Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive(U. of Hawai'i Press, 2013) and Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales (Duke University Press, 1996). --- Contributor: Vicente Rafael Vincente L. Rafael is the Giovanni and Anne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation (Duke University Press, 2016), The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press, 2005), and several other books.

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"Daniels has produced a comprehensive, richly observed and sensitively analysed study of lived and living sharia in a complex cultural and political context."

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"Living Sharia is one of the most theoretically sophisticated, rigorously empirical, and ethnographically engaging works in the anthropology of Islam in years. At a moment when ‘discourses about sharia are integral to sociopolitical dynamics in American society’ (5), this is a book that deserves to be read by anthropologists and everyone concernedwith the challenge of religious ethics and citizenship in our late modern world."

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    Acknowledgments

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    Note on Transcription

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    Chronology

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    Introduction: Sharia and the Anthropology of Knowledge

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    1 Sharia in Malaysia: The Historical Background

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    2 Family Law: Religious Officials, Reasoning Style, and Controversies

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    3 Criminal Law: Taking the Middle Road

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    4 Economics: The Malaysian State, Darul Arqam, and the Islamic Party of Malaysia

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    5 Pro-Sharia Discourses: Race, Religion, and Nation

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    6 Contra-Sharia Discourses: Islamic and Secular Human Rights

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    7 Individuals: Views, Voices, and Practices

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    Conclusion: Sharia Cultural Models and Sociopolitical Projects

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    Notes

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    Glossary

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    References

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    Index

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9780295742564
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295742564
eBook ISBN: 9780295742564
Keywords for this book
Anthropology; Asian Studies / Southeast Asia; Law
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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