Living Sharia

Timothy P. Daniels is professor of anthropology at Hofstra University. He is the author of Islamic Spectrum in Java and Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia, and editor of Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia.

"Living Sharia is one of the most theoretically sophisticated, rigorously empirical, and ethnographically engaging works in the anthropology of Islam in years. At a moment when ‘discourses about sharia are integral to sociopolitical dynamics in American society’ (5), this is a book that deserves to be read by anthropologists and everyone concernedwith the challenge of religious ethics and citizenship in our late modern world."

• AcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionChronology Introduction: Sharia and the Anthropology of Knowledge 1. Sharia in Malaysia: The Historical Background 2. Family Law: Religious Officials, Reasoning Style, and Controversies 3. Criminal Law: Taking the MiddleRoad 4. Economics: The Malaysian State, Darul Arqam, and the Islamic Party of Malaysia 5. Pro-Sharia Discourses: Race, Religion, and Nation 6. Contra-Sharia Discourses: Islamic and Secular Human Rights 7. Individuals: Views, Voices, and Practices Conclusion: Sharia Cultural Models and SociopoliticalProjectsNotes Glossary ReferencesIndex