Islamic modern : religious courts and cultural politics in Malaysia /

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Author / Creator:Peletz, Michael G.
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
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ISBN:0691095078 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691095086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-325) and index.
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