The LGBT issue re-emerged in Indonesia and has become a warm polemic in society, this issue has split the community into two groups, the supportive and the rejecting groups. Each side expressed their views on this issue with different reasons and approaches. The two most distinct groups of differing views on this issue are the Indonesian Ulama Council and the Liberal Islam Network. This s…
This research aims to compare the hearing testimony of English law with hearing testimony in Islamic Sharia. The article uses comparative analytical descriptive method by comparing English law as a basis with Islamic law. The data were collected from secondary data extracted from books, scientific journal, and websites. The result showed that the testimony on hearing is not in place of the …
The Islamic Law State is one of the existing state forms in real politics. When an Islamic state interacts with a non-Islamic state, conflict is inevitable. When this happens, Islamic law stipulates that all disputes must be settled in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah. This study explores what might transpire if one of the parties in conflict refused to accept the application of Islamic…
Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world— commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into “religion” (the non-secular) a…
In contemporary times, wars are not taking place in a legal vacuum. There are laws available on resorting to force and conduct of hostilities, including Islamic Laws of war and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). These legal regimes trace their origins in the teaching of elders that have further translated into rules and principles to limit the destructive nature of an armed conflict.…
The majority of Muslim nations, including Malaysia, ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with the exception of those provisions that conflict with Islamic teachings, particularly those that deal with Islamic family law. This article discusses conflicting issues that are related to the provisions of Article 16 (1) of CEDAW a…
This study explored the effects of the epidemiological crisis (Covid-19) on societies in general, and on the Jordanian society in particular from the psychological perspective. It pinpointed the preventive and curative psychological roles for the Islamic culture to reach solutions for the problems resulting from the epidemiological crisis. The study also explained the relationship of …
Islam is the same religion that had been revealed to, preached and followed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all other prophets of God(As). Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was the final link in the chain of divine messengers. Islam, therefore, is the continuity of divine guidance since the beginning of human history on earth, not a new religion founded by Prophet Muhammad…
In the context of protection of lineage, women and family, iddah has preserved its existence under the influence of religious, cultural and social factors, and has gained a universal quality in purpose and scope, except for the differences in terms. To stop the extremism experienced in the pre-Islamic Arab society and to bring them into order, restrictive provisions were introduced on t…
Islam is an easy and practical system of spending life. It does not have any kind of constraint, oppression or restriction in its skirt due to a workable system of life and the exactness of human nature. Islam has introduced the concept of Ijtihād for the proper solution to the new situations and problems that arise in every age. A closer look at contemporary human societies makes it…