Women and Property Rights in Indonesian Islamic Legal Contexts

In this volume, eight scholars of Indonesian Islam examine women's access to property in law courts and in village settings. The chapters go beyond the world of legal and scriptural texts to ask how women in fact fare at critical moments of marriage, divorce, and death.

About the author

John R. Bowen (Ph.D University of Chicago, 1984) is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies questions of Islam, law, and society in Indonesia and Europe, and his latest book is On British Islam (Princeton, 2016). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arskal Salim, Ph.D. (2006), University of Melbourne, is Professor of Islamic Law at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta. He has published extensively including his latest book Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)

Product details

• Assisted by: John Bowen (Editor), Arskal Salim (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9789004385962
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38596-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 269 g
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and So
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories