Islamic modern : religious courts and cultural politics in Malaysia /
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Author / Creator: | Peletz, Michael G. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002. |
Description: | xvii, 339 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton studies in Muslim politics |
Subject: | Courts, Islamic -- Malaysia. Islamic courts. Social conditions Malaysia -- Social conditions. Malaysia. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4949882 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Spelling, Terminology, and Currency
- Introduction
- Background and Context
- Methods
- Part 1. The Culture, Political Economy, and History of the Islamic Courts
- Chapter 1. Locating Islamic Magistrates and Their Courts in History
- Islamic Magistrates, Islamic Courts, and Islamic Law through the 1830s
- Colonial Representations of Islamic Magistrates and Their Courts, 1840s-1880s
- The Reorganization and Rationalization of the Courts, 1890s-1980s
- Chapter 2. The Work of the Courts
- Background and Setting
- Domains and Jurisdictions
- Operations
- The Cultural Logic of Judicial Process
- Chapter 3. Litigant Strategies and Patterns of Resistance
- Women's Strategies and Experiences
- Men's Strategies and Experiences
- Patterns of Resistance and Oppositional Discourses
- Part 2. Modernity and Governmentality in Islamic Courts and Other Domains
- Chapter 4. Reinscribing Authenticity and Identity
- What's There and What's Not: The Said, the Unsaid, and the Unwritten
- Reinscribing Authenticity and Identity
- Rationalization and Resistance Revisited
- Chapter 5. Producing Good Subjects, "Asian Values," and New Types of Criminality
- A Note on Gender Pluralism, Transgender Practices, and the Long Duree
- Narratives of "Asian Values" and the Rise of Social Intolerance
- New Types of Criminality: Azizah, Anwar, and Beyond
- Conclusion: Islam, Modernity, and Civil Society
- Kinship Matters in the Dialectics of Civil Society and the State
- Back to the Malaysian Future
- Notes
- Glossary of Frequently Used Malay Terms
- Bibliography
- Index