Islam, Politics and Change

The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-8728-238-7
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Debates on Islam & Society

"After violent protests across the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. For the first time in forty years Islamic parties and organizations – including some inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – were free to propagate their ways of thinking. The new government also succeeded in negotiating an end to a separatist rebellion in Aceh, making the province the only region in Indonesia permitted to draft its own Islamic legislation. In this book Indonesian scholars affiliated with Islamic universities as well as Dutch researchers investigate what has happened since the transition. They explore what the consequences are of the growing influence of orthodoxy and radicalism, which – while already visible prior to 1998 – has only grown stronger. How did political and religious relations change? How were the lives of women and their legal position affected? Furthermore, what are the ramifications for religious minorities?"

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Dijk, Kees

Kaptein, Nico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Tables and Figures 9

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein

Part 1: Islamic Political Parties and Socio-Religious

Organisations

Kees van Dijk

1 A Study of the Internal Dynamics of the Prosperous Justice Party and Jamaah Tarbiyah

Ahmad-Norma Permata

2 The Mosque as the Religious Sphere: Looking at the Conflict over the Al Muttaqun Mosque

Syaifudin Zuhri

3 Enforcing Religious Freedom in Indonesia: Muslim Elites and the Ahmadiyah Controversy after the 2011 Cikeusik Clash

Bastiaan Scherpen

Part 2: Sharia-Based Legislation and the Legal Position of Women and Children

Kees van Dijk

4 Sharia-Based Laws: The Legal Position of Women and Children in Banten and West Java

Euis Nurlaelawati

5 The Islamic Court of Bulukumba and Women’s Access to Divorce and Post-Divorce Rights

Stijn van Huis

6 Women in Local Politics: The Byelaw on Prostitution in Bantul

Muhammad Latif Fauzi

Part 3: Sharia and Counterculture in Aceh

Kees van Dijk

7 Neo-Sufism, Shariatism, and Ulama Politics: Abuya Shaykh Amran Waly and the Tauhid-Tasawuf Movement in Aceh

Moch Nur Ichwan

8 Cultural Resistance to Shariatism in Aceh

Reza Idria

9 Images of Violence and Piety in Aceh

David Kloos

Bibliography

Glossary

About the Authors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kaptein, Nico
Nico J.G. Kaptein teaches Islamic Studies at Leiden University and has held research fellowships in Singapore and Berlin. He is South-east Asia editor for the 3rd edition of the authoritative Encyclopaedia of Islam.

van Dijk, Kees
Kees van Dijk is Emeritus Professor of the History of Modern Islam in Indonesia at Leiden University.