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Informationen zum Autor Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law, Director of the Asian Law Centre and Director of the Centre for Islamic Law and Society, both in the Law School at The University of Melbourne. Kerstin Steiner is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, and an Associate of the Asian Law Centre and Centre for Islamic Law and Society, both at The University of Melbourne. Klappentext Through a detailed account of positive law and related religious and social institutions! Lindsey and Steiner explore the balance that the Singaporean government seeks to maintain between its obligations to an indigenous Muslim minority and the needs of its majority non-Muslim immigrant community. Vorwort Through a detailed account of positive law and related religious and social institutions, Lindsey and Steiner explore the balance that the Singaporean government seeks to maintain between its obligations to an indigenous Muslim minority and the needs of its majority non-Muslim immigrant community. Zusammenfassung The substantive regulations and legal institutions through which the state manages the religions of its Malay minority in contemporary Singapore are the focus of this volume. Through a detailed account of positive law and related religious and social institutions, Lindsey and Steiner explore the balance that the Singaporean government seeks to maintain between its obligations to an indigenous Muslim minority and the needs of its majority non-Muslim immigrant community. Inhaltsverzeichnis GlossaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Governing the Muslim Minority in Singapore: Law, Legal Institutions and the Anglo-Malay MadhhabPart I. Sources of Islamic Regulation in SingaporeChapter 2. Islamic Law under Colonial Rule: The Ordinances1. Reception of English Law and its Influence on Islamic Law2. Administration of Islam under Colonial Rule3. Trends for the Post-colonial DevelopmentChapter 3. Islamic Law Post-Independence: The Administration of Muslim Law ActPart II. Non-Judicial Legal Institutions in SingaporeChapter 4. State Islamic Institutions1. The Ministries: Muslim Affairs and Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS)2. Registrar of Muslim Marriages (ROMM)3. Fatawa and the Majlis Ugama Islam Singapore (MUIS)Chapter 5. Regulation of Islamic Education1. Madrasah2. Other Islamic Education at Private Institutions3. Islamic Education at Secular Schools4. The Future of Islamic Religious EducationPart III. The Religious Judiciary in SingaporeChapter 6. The Syari’ah Court SystemPart IV. Judicial Decision MakingChapter 7. Judicial Decision Making in the Religious Courts*Case study: divorcePart V. Alternative Visions of Syari’ah and State Responses in SingaporeChapter 8. The Malay Minority and the Politics of Syari’ah in SingaporeBibliographyIndex...
