Introduction : studying women's access to property

![CDATA[The past twenty years have seen an increasing degree of collaboration among scholars who share an interest in Islamic law but who were trained in diverse disciplines, from theology and law to anthropology and history. Major edited volumes attest to this new multidisciplinary approach to particular topics, whether the role of muftis (religious legal experts) and fatwas (scholarly opinions), the operation of courts across the centuries, or the broader social contexts of shari‘a (see, respectively, Masud, Messick, & Powers, 1996; Masud, Peters, & Powers, 2006; Dupret, 2012). This volume aims to support this multidisciplinary engagement with Islamic law, with a quite specific focus: Indonesian women’s strategies to secure rights to property in Islamic legal settings.]]