Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia

CONTRIBUTORS

viii Contributors© 2003 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore viii CONTRIBUTORS Azyumardi Azra is Professor of History and also Rector of the State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University while conducting his post-doctoral research. Since 1993 he has been the editor-in-chief of Studia Islamika: Indonesian Journal for Islamic Studies (Jakarta). He is also editor of Journal of Qur’anic Studies (SOAS, London) and Jurnal Usuluddin (UM, Kuala Lumpur). He has published widely on various aspects of history, religion, and politics. Among his books are Mengenal Ajaran Kaum Sufi (Jakarta: Pustaka Jaya, 1984), Agama di Tengah Sekularisasi Politik (Jakarta: Pustaka Panjimas, 1985), Perspektif Islam di Asia Tenggara (Jakarta: Yayasan Obor, 1989), Jaringan Ulama Timur Tengah dan Kepulauan Nusantara Abad XVII dan XVIII (Bandung: Mizan, 1994), Pergolakan Politik Islam dari Fundamentalisme, Modernisme Hingga Post-Modernisme (Jakarta: Paramadina, 1996), and Islam Substantif: Agar Umat Tidak Jadi Buih, (Bandung: Mizan, 2000). Mark Cammack is Professor of Law at Southwestern University’s School of Law, Los Angeles, where he specializes in comparative law with particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. He obtained his J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence) from the University of Wisconsin in 1983. After a clerkship for Justice Roland B. Day of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, he spent one year in Indonesia as a Fulbright scholar examining the country’s legal system. His articles have been published in various international journals, including Indonesia, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and American Journal of Comparative Law. He is also actively involved in the Association for Asian Studies and the Law and Society Association. Howard M. Federspiel is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University, Newark. He earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from McGill University in Canada Contributors ix© 2003 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore in 1966. He was Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at McGill University 1991–92 and 1995–2001 and Senior Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia in 1994. He was the general editor for An Anthology of Islamic Studies, vol. 2 (Montreal: Institute of Islamic Studies, 1996) and is the author of several books, including Islam and Ideology in the Emerging Indonesian State (Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2001), and Popular Islamic Literature in Indonesia (Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1994). Recent articles include “Indonesia, Islam and U.S. Policy”, The Brown Journal of World Affairs 9, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 107–14; “Contemporary Southeast Asian Muslim Intellectuals”, in Islam in the Era of Globalization, edited by Johan Meuleman (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), pp. 327–50, and “Islam and National Identity”, in Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Indonesia. (Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center, July 1999), pp. 12–18. Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1981 with the dissertation “Identity and Cultural Reproduction among Tengger Javanese”. The dissertation was revised and published in 1985 as Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam. He specializes in Southeast Asian and Islamic studies, with a focus on religion, economic culture, and modern political change. He has published widely in international journals such as Journal of Asian Studies and Indonesia. Some of his publications are: The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretative History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1993), Islam in an Era of Nation States: Politics and Religious Renewal in Muslim Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1998), Islam Pasar Keadilan: Artikulasi Lokal, Kapitalism, dan Demokrasi (Yogjakarta: LKiS, 2000), and Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). M. B. Hooker is Professor of Law at the Australian National University. He was formerly Professor of Comparative Law at Kent University, Canterbury. He has written widely on Islamic and traditional laws in Southeast Asia. Some of his recent publications are Adat Law in Modern Indonesia (Kuala Lumpur and New York: Oxford University Press, 1978); Concise Legal History of Southeast Asia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978); and Islamic Law in Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1984). He is also editor of Islam in Southeast Asia (Leiden: Brill, 1983); Law and the Chinese in Southeast...