Author: Thomas John NewboldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca
Author: Thomas John NewboldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Influences Of Early History On Multicultural Melaka
Author: Devinder RajPublisher: Devinder Raj
ISBN: 9671510736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This is not an ordinary guide to Melaka. This book weaves together history, cultures, architecture and cuisine to tell a more multifaceted story of Melaka, once a great trading port fought over by various colonial powers, resulting in a rich heritage that is still salient today, resulting in a multicultural city reflecting its cosmopolitan journey over the centuries. Journey along the old streets of Melaka and past its ruins, where its rich history, reflecting hundreds of years of Asian and European influence, remains alive and evolving to this day.
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
List of members in some numbers.
Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Straits BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: British Malaya, 1824-1867
Author: Lennox Algernon MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Islamic Modern
Author: Michael G. PeletzPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How do Islamic courts work? What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies? How do women's claims fare? Do these courts promote social tolerance? And how do states use them to consolidate power, build nations, and shape a modern citizenry? These are among the questions addressed in this book, which not only enhances our understanding of diversity among and within the world's Muslim communities, but also provides ethnographic, historical, and transnational perspectives on contemporary Islam in the shifting landscape of a strategically important region of the world. Focusing on Malaysia, which has sustained more rapid development than probably any other Muslim nation, Michael Peletz explores the culture, political economy, and history of Islamic courts. He demonstrates that they are centrally involved in the creation and policing of new Malay-Muslim identities (such as middle-class urban dwellers) that the state sees as the basis for a national polity that will be highly competitive. He also shows how and why Islamic courts are key sites in struggles involving ethnic and religious groups, social classes, political parties, and others with a major stake in defining Islam's role with respect to the maintenance of sovereignty and the achievement of modernity and civil society in an age of globalization. Peletz deepens our knowledge of Islamic political development in a country very much concerned with forging an Islamic modernity viewed by its leaders as a viable alternative to Western-style modernization.
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