Gender Islam Nationalism and the State in Aceh

This book sets out to open up the space for interpretation of history and politics in Aceh which is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. It lays out a groundwork for analysing how female agency is constituted in Aceh in a complex interplay of indigenous matrifocality Islamic belief and practices state terror and political violence. Analysts of the current conflict in Aceh have tended to focus on present events. Siapno provides a historical analysis of power co-optation and resistance in Aceh and links it to broader comparative studies of gender Islam and the state in Muslim communities throughout the world.