Majelis Permusyawaratan Ulama - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Feener, R. Michael
Leiden
Brill
(690 words)
The Majelis Permusyawaratan Ulama (Consultative Council of Ulama) is the state-affiliated council of ʿ ulamāʾ (Islamic religious scholars) in the Indonesian province of Aceh. This designation was adopted in 2000, signalling a newly expanded mandate for this organisation as part of a new state Islamic legal system established in Aceh in the twenty-first century. Aceh has had such a council of ulama since 1965, making it one of the earliest in the region. The founding mandate of the Majelis Ulama Daerah Aceh (Aceh Regional Council Ulama) was to