Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Malay Names, Honorific Titles, and Terminology xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction: Faith, Self, and Community 1
8. 1. Islam, the State, and Gender: The Malaysian Experiment 39
9. 2. The Politics of the Sacred: Returning to the Fundamentals of Islam 75
10. 3. In the Path of the Faithful: Activism for Social and Legal Reforms 105
11. 4. Who Speaks for Islam?: Religious Authority and Contested Justice 143
12. 5. Negotiating Lives, Crafting Selves: Narratives of Belonging 181
13. 6. The Local in the Transnational: Gender Justice and Feminist Solidarities 215
14. Conclusion 247