Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia »

R. Michael Feener is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. His recent publications include, as editor, Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (2003) and Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions (forthcoming).

An accessible overview of the religious and social thought of the world's largest Muslim majority nation.

Preface;

1. Technology, training, and social transformation;
2. The open gate of Ijtihad;
3. An 'Indonesian Madhhab';
4. Shari'a Islam in a Pancasila nation;
5. Muslim intellectuals and the 're-actualization' of Islam;
6. The new Ulama; 7: Next generation Fiqh?; Conclusions; Bibliography.