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Islamic Law in Southeast Asia: A Study of Its Application in Kelantan and Aceh East Asia Thailand’s grapes of wrath inKamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad This monograph examines the dynamics involved in implementing Islamic law in Southeast Asia, and how this issue has become a source of conflict in Kelantan, Malaysia, and Aceh, Indonesia. Using textual and fieldwork methodology, the study compares and contrasts the collective experience of trying to apply Islamic law in these two locations. In both Kelantan and Aceh, Islamic law was first developed in the thirteenth century