M. B. Hooker

Discusses the creation a national school of Islamic law in Indonesia. Presents a complex range of references for syariah including 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 public morality.

Defining a National School of Islamic Law

Indonesian Syariah

Adat Law in Modern Indonesia

M. B. Hooker

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