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Branding Islam: Islam, law, and bureaucracies in Southeast Asia
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Abstract Islam plays a pivotal political role in Southeast Asian countries, where the governments that have ruled since independence have been concerned with influencing the trajectory, content, hermeneutic and style of the legal traditions of their Muslim citizens and reconciling them with the states' wider... mehr
Islam plays a pivotal political role in Southeast Asian countries, where the governments that have ruled since independence have been concerned with influencing the trajectory, content, hermeneutic and style of the legal traditions of their Muslim citizens and reconciling them with the states' wider policy objectives. This contribution looks at one particular tool for this form of "guiding" Islam -the codification of Islam- comparing the codes in two Muslim-majority countries (Malaysia and Brunei) and two Muslim-minority countries (Singapore and the Philippines). Utilising comparative law methodologies, this article explores the structure, style and content of the codes in order to explicate their explicit and implied function. These codes are less concerned with being a statement of substantive Islamic law than with setting up a state-sanctioned bureaucracy for the administration of law for Muslims. These bureaucratic institutions were the key instruments for the states to develop their own brand of Islam. In doing so, the state's approach towards socially engineering Islam oscillates among appropriation, accommodation, control and subjugation of Islam in different political and legal frameworks.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Südostasien; Islam; Rechtsvergleich; Bürokratie; Muslim; Gesetz; Verwaltung; Staat; sozialer Code; Singapur; Malaysia; Brunei; Philippinen; Politik
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Religionssoziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 27-56
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 37 (2018) 1
Heftthema
Special issue: the bureaucratisation of Islam in Southeast Asia: transdisciplinary perspectives
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung 3.0