The Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic Muḥarrar, and Javanese Law Books: A VOC Experiment with Muslim Law in Java, 1747–1767.

This article examines the claims of Dutch East India Company (VOC) officials in the mid-eighteenth century regarding the Islamic source of a legal code prepared for the local population in Semarang, northeast Java. Although the VOC had encountered local legal cultures in Indonesia since the mid-seve...

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Published in:	Itinerario Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 202 - 220
Main Author:	Kooria, Mahmood
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Aug2018
Subjects:	Islamic law > History Legal bibliographies Javanese literature
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