Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86). / xi, 86 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm

Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 275-287. / Ph.D.

Proefschrift--Leiden--Rijkuniversiteit, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 449-460.

This thesis studies the response of the traditionalist Muslim groups of Minangkabau, Indonesia, to the modernist movement of the early decades of this century. In their effort to lay the foundations of a rational and progressive Muslim society and rediscovery the true ethics of Islam, the modernists had called for fresh ijtihad. The traditionalists rejected the possibility, or necessity, of new ijtihad and insisted that Islam had been perfectly articulated in the authoritative works of the scholars, especially those of the four schools of law, and that every Muslim must simply adhere to them. The traditionalists argued that the methods of the modernists' not only endangered the authority of the four schools, they threatened to undermine the age-old notion of a harmonious balance between Islam and adat, the two ideological foundations of Minangkabau society. To the traditionalists, therefore, the struggle against the modernists was at once a defense of the classical schools of law and of the harmony of Islam and adat in Minangkabau.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1985. / Bibliography: leaves 76-78. / Photocopy. / x, 78 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm

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Dans cette ethnographie totalisante de la paysannerie Minangkabau (Sumatra occidental, Indonésie), les éléments principaux sont : l’analyse de la relation homme/femme dans une société fortement matrilinéaire; la description des formes du système des titres; l'analyse du système d’alliance et la connubium asymétrique en particulier; l’économie et les règles juridiques des rizières et de la tenure foncière. Comme système global, cette société équilibre les principes de la hiérarchie et de 1'égalité et ralentit l’émergence des contradictions de classe. La thèse développe une méthode sémiotique pour faire l’analyse totalisante des sociétés complexes.

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