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Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Michael G. Peletz
Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Michael G. Peletz
How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Addressing such questions, this book provides ethnographic, historical, and transnational perspectives on contemporary Islam in the shifting landscape of an important region of the world - Malaysia.
368 pages, 2 Maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 1, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780691095080 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 152 × 235 × 235 mm · 482 g |
Language | English |
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