The purpose of this article is to explore and analyze the legal basis for polygamy in both Islamic law and positive law in Indonesia. Polygamy refers to a man having multiple wives at the same time. In Islamic law, polygamy is permissible under certain conditions as stated in the Qur’an, specifically if the husband can treat all wives fairly. The research aims to examine the perspective o…
This article critically examines instances of judicial activism in the field of Islamic family law in Bangladesh in an attempt to assess this judicial trend. Seeing ‘judicial activism’ mainly as an enlightened application of ijtih§d and also as society-specific application of statutes based on, or related to sharÊ#ah, we highlight the justice-ameliorative role of this concept. The…