"This is an excellent book which will have a major impact on the current debate about the relationship between Islam and politics in Indonesia. Its greatest str

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What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim sch

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Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian m