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MUSLIM LEGAL THOUGHT IN MODERN INDONESIA R.
His recent publications include, as editor, Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (2003) and Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions (forthcoming). m i c h a e l f e e n e r is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. As such it will be read by scholars of Islamic law and society, Southeast Asian Studies and comparative law and jurisprudence. This is an accessible and interpretive overview of the religious and social thought of the world’s largest Muslim majority nation. The book highlights the openness to, and creative manipulation of, diverse strands of international thought that have come to define Islamic intellectualism in modern Indonesia. Michael Feener, an intellectual authority in the area, offers a cogent critique of this diverse and extensive literature and sheds light on the contemporary debates and the dynamics of Islamic reform.
By considering the work of the leading Indonesian thinkers of the twentieth century, R. Nevertheless little is known or understood about these developments outside Southeast Asia. Indonesia has been home to some of the most vibrant and complex developments in modern Islamic thought anywhere in the world.
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