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Author Hooker, M. B.

Title Indonesian syariah : defining a national school of Islamic law / M.B. Hooker
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; 1. Syariah in the State: The New Fiqh; 2. Syariah Philosophies: From God to Man and Back Again?; 3. Learning Syariah: The National and Regional Curricula; 4. The Public Transmission of Syariah: The Friday Sermon; 5. Syariah in the Bureaucracy: The Department of Religion and the Hajj; 6. Syariah Values in the Regions: A New Ijtihad for a 'Sick' Society; 7. Epilogue: Syariah on the Edge; References; Index
Summary The creation of a national school of Islamic law in Indonesia has been on the legal agenda for the past fifty years. This book is a summary of what has been achieved. The material shows us a complex range of references for syariah. These include the formal structures of a "new fiqh", philosophies of law, transmissions of syariah through tertiary curricula and the Friday sermon in mosques, a bureaucratic form for conducting the Hajj, and contemporary debates on syariah values as expressions of ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-313) and index
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Subject Islamic law -- Indonesia -- Interpretation and construction
Islam -- Customs and practices.
Islam -- Customs and practices
Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction
Islamitisch recht.
Islamitische rechtsscholen.
Indonesia
Indonesiƫ.
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.