Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary

The LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society) Organises on Thursday 20 May 2021 a lecture by Mr. Michael G. Peletz where he will discuss his new book, Sharia Transformations, which is an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine, everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and examines how these court practices and discourses have changed due to processes of bureaucratization, corporatization, and Islamization that have occurred in Malaysia's juridical and cultural-political fields since the late 1970s. Peletz approaches Malaysia’s sharia judiciary as a global assemblage and addresses important issues in the humanistic and social-scientific literature concerning how Malay Muslims engage ethical norms and deal with law, social justice, and governance in a rapidly globalizing world. 

For further information regarding the lecture, please check the LUCIS website.