Sharia transformations : cultural politics and the rebranding of an Islamic judiciary / Michael G. Peletz.

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"Few symbols in today's world are as laden and fraught as "sharia"-an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peletz, Michael G. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Islamic law > Malaysia. Islam > Social aspects > Malaysia. Islam and politics > Malaysia. Islamic ethics > Malaysia. Islamic law. Islam and politics. Islam > Social aspects. Islamic ethics. Malaysia.
Physical Description:	xxi, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : Sharia, cultural politics, anthropology
Sharia Judiciary as global assemblage : Islamization, corporatization, and other transformations in context
A tale of two courts : judicial transformation, corporate Islamic governmentality, and the new punitiveness
What are Sulh sessions? after Ijtihad, Islamic ADR, and pastoral power
Discourse, practice, and rebranding in Kuala Lumpur's Sharia courthouse
Are women getting (more) justice? ethnographic, historical, and comparative perspectives.