SOCIAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION IN THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ADAT AND ISLAM IN REMBAU, NEGERI SEMBILAN

• Main Author: Peletz, Michael G. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 1981
• Series: ISEAS research notes and discussions paper no. 27
• Subjects: Adat law > Negeri Sembilan > Malaysia
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• Physical Description: 59 pages 28 cm
• ISBN: 9971902281

Rembau is one of the six principal administrative districts (jajahan) of the modern Malay (that is, West Malaysian) state of Negeri Sembilan. Along with adjacent territories, Rembau was colonized over four centuries ago by matrilineally organized, syncretic Muslim immigrants from the Minangkabau area of Sumatra. As with Negeri Sembilan as a whole, Rembau and its inhabitants' system of social and cultural conventions known collectively as adat perpateh have attracted a good measure of scholarly attention. Much of the initial interest in this area emerged within the context of the commercial and administrative considerations of the British who had imposed their colonial presence in Negeri Sembilan and neighbouring Malay states by the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Understandably the bulk of the early British scholarship.