HUKUM ADAT vis a vis HUKUM ISLAM DI ACEH: TINJAUAN SEJARAH HUKUM DI KESULTANAN ACEH TAHUN 1516-1688 M.

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Abstrak
The author does figures and analyze about criminal conduct and the
punishment pattern in Aceh region during 16th and 17th centuries that be
done by historical approach. The substance is explores regarding
punishment was applied by Aceh Sultans that be developed by ultimate
sources from both local and foreign visitor testimony who come from Europe
and Asia to Aceh regions. By those sources then the author is confidence to
doing clear description regarding punishment system was applied during
those centuries is adat law or Islamic law ones by adequate historical facts
and not only blind claim. The author proposes thesis that Aceh kingdom
(kesultanan) that claimed as Islamic government system but using adat law
to govern and regulate their people and was not Islamic law as recent
common perceptions continuing.