Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh East Asia The history of Southeast Asia

The history of Southeast Asia

Thailand’s grapes of wrath in the making: New book outlines jagged landscape of recent Thai politics (Bangkok Post

Each year during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan

The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay

This collection is published as volume 5 in the yearbook series of King Prajadhipok’s Institute

Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh East Asia The history of Southeast AsiaKamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad This monograph examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia, and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, the study compares and contrasts the collective experience of trying to apply Islamic law in these two locations. In both Kelantan and Aceh, Islamic law was first developed in the thirteenth century