Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices

Introduction 1. The Formation of Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral, c. 615-1000 CE 2. Legal Diglossia, Lexical Borrowing and Mixed Judicial Systems in Early Islamic Java and Sumatra 3. Borrowing Adat and Adopting Islam: The Mandarese Records on the Creation and Islamization of Adat in West Sulawesi 4. Shari'a Translated? Persian Documents in English Courts 5. Possibilities and pitfalls of cosmopolitanism: Two treaties from northern Somalia in the late nineteenth century 6. Islamic Legal Crossings and Debates in Cambodia: Evidence from fatawa and French Colonial Archives in the Early 20th Century 7. The Interplay of Two Shari'a Penal Codes: A Case from Gayo Society, Indonesia 8. Post-colonial Nostalgia, Conspiracy Theories and Uneasy Quiescence: Muslim Newspaper Commentary on the Debate on Kadhis' Courts in Contemporary Tanzania