Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh East Asia Communist Party cadres

Communist Party cadres

and identities

boundaries and space of all the main ethnic groups in Burma

and complex dimensions of identity and difference

the book also offers valuable insights for all courses dealing with issues of democratization

Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh East Asia Communist Party cadresKamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad This monograph examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia, and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, the study compares and contrasts the collective experience of trying to apply Islamic law in these two locations. In both Kelantan and Aceh, Islamic law was first developed in the thirteenth century