Women and Property Rights in Indonesian Islamic Legal Contexts

Approx. 150 Pp. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38596-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 269 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

In Women and Property Rights in Indonesian Islamic Contexts, eight scholars of Indonesian Islam examine women’s access to property in law courts and in village settings. The authors draw on fieldwork from across the archipelago to analyse how judges and ordinary people apply interpretations of law, religion, and gender in deliberating and deciding in property disputes that arise at moments of marriage, divorce, and death. The chapters go beyond the world of legal and scriptural texts to ask how women in fact fare in these contexts. Women’s capabilities and resources in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim society and one with distinctive traditions of legal and social life, provides a critical knowledge base for advancing our understanding of the social life of Islamic law.

Contributors: Nanda Amalia, John R. Bowen, Tutik Hamidah, Abidin Nurdin, Euis Nurlaelawati, Arskal Salim, Rosmah Tami & Atun Wardatun.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, John

Salim, Arskal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Studying Women’s Access to Property
John R. Bowen and Arskal Salim

Part 1 Local Systems of Meaning, Norms and Power

1 The Social Practice of Mahr among Bimanese Muslims
Modifying Rules, Negotiating Roles
Atun Wardatun

2 Siri and the Access of Bugis Makassarese Women to Property Rights
Rosmah Tami

Part 2 Women’s Visions and Strategies

3 The Rights of Children Born out of Wedlock
Views of Muslim Women’s Organizations on Constitutional Court Judgement 46/2010
Tutik Hamidah

4 Inheritance for Women
The Role of Lawyers in Women’s Access and Rights
Nanda Amalia

Part 3 The Role of Judges

5 Women’s Financial Rights after Divorce in Indonesia
Euis Nurlaelawati

6 Mut’ah and Iddah
Post-divorce Payment Practices in Aceh
Abidin Nurdin

7 Disputing Marriage Payments in Indonesia
A Comparative Study of Aceh and South Sulawesi
Arskal Salim

Epilogue
John R. Bowen

Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John R. Bowen (Ph.D University of Chicago, 1984) is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies questions of Islam, law, and society in Indonesia and Europe, and his latest book is On British Islam (Princeton, 2016). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Arskal Salim, Ph.D. (2006), University of Melbourne, is Professor of Islamic Law at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta. He has published extensively including his latest book Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)