Arguing for new consideration of calls for implementation of Islamic law as projects of future-oriented social transformation, this book presents a richly-textured critical overview of the day-to-day workings of one of the most complex experiments with the implementation of Islamic law in the contemporary world - that of post-tsunami Aceh.

• Preface


• 1: Islamic Identity and the Construction of Aceh's Past


• 2: Reconfigurations of Religious Education and Authority


• 3: Institutionalizing the Acehnese Ulama


• 4: The Legislation of Islam in Modern Aceh


• 5: The Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence of Shari'a Courts


• 6: State-directed Da`wa and the Shari`a Bureaucracy


• 7: Sanctions and Socialization


• 8: Shari`a and Social Engineering


• Appendix: Key Analytical Terms


• Bibliography

R. Michael Feener is Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He has also taught at Reed College, and the University of California, Riverside. He has been a visiting professor/ research fellow at Kyoto University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the University of Copenhagen, The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and the International Institute for Asian Studies. His books include Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia, From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh (with Patrick Daly & Anthony Reid), Mapping the Acehnese Past (with Patrick Daly & Anthony Reid), Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies of South and Southeast Asia (with Terenjit Sevea), Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions (with Mark Cammack), and Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives.