The enactment of corporal punishment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is one of the efforts of local government in realizing Islamic society. This corporal punishment is one of the alternatives for national criminal law policy in preventing crime which keeps increasing. This research aims to identify the background, implementation, and effectiveness of the corporal punishment in Qanun No. …
يعد اإلمام العالم العالمة المحقق المدقق أبو عبد اهلل محمد الطيب بن عبد المجيد بن كيران من علماء فاس المتقنين والمحققين لعلوم الشريعة، وعلوم اآللة، ذلك أن مترجمنا نشأ في أسرة علمية، اشتهرت بالعلم والصالح والوجاهة وا…
Article’s objective is to analyse decisions of the Shariah Courts in Malaysia from the perspective of case law reporting on its judgment with particular interest to observe the tendency, challenges and problems faced by these courts while delivering judgement. Analysis is made to cases reported in the Jurnal Hukum published by Department of Shariah Judiciary Malaysia (JKSM) and Sy…
Penulisan alasan penghakiman adalah merupakan suatu proses penghakiman yang penting bagi menzahirkan keadilan di mahkamah. Dalam sebuah kes jenayah syariah, ia melibatkan penjagaan hak dan maruah kerana tertuduh boleh disabitkan dengan sesuatu kesalahan dan dijatuhkan hukuman. Oleh itu, penulisan sesuatu alasan penghakiman adalah amat signifikan dalam menjelaskan bagaimana dan mengapa ses…
is article aims to explain why organized queer activism emerged in Aceh, but could endure only in about six years (from 2008 to 2014). It is argued that this has mainly caused by massive expansion of ‘shari‘a spheres’ since 2001 supported by national and local government and parliament legal-political back up and societal religio-cultural forces on the one hand, and weak natu…
This article examines the motives behind the decisions of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), in 1980 and 2005, to issue fatwas condemning the Ahmadiyah. Using critical discourse analysis, this study reveals MUI’s motives behind its fatwas on the Ahmadiyah by drawing on the text and the context of the issuance of the fatwas. Underpinning MUI’s issuance of its fatwa on the Ahmadiyah…
An in-depth knowledge of the Objectives of Shariah, as intended by Allah the Lawgiver, is needed for analytical research when enacting Shariah. The question arises regarding the level of Arabic language knowledge required to understand Shariah before one is considered bound by Shariah injunctions. The main aim of this study is to elaborate on the classification of the Objectives of Sharia…
The reader of the Hoy Quran’s interpretations suffers the misconception of three different, but related, concepts, namely: al-xidaaʕ ‘deception’, al-kayd ‘machination’, and al-makr ‘wiliness’, where each concept entails the others even in the old dictionaries. This study tries to capture the semantic differences between these three different concepts based on the premise th…
Due to a complex legal system in Malaysia, Muslim converts were left with no other option but to negotiate with their spouse to convert or file a petition for divorce in court. This study intends to explore the legal discourse and narratives of Muslim converts on the legal implications of their conversion to Islam, particularly in the cases of dissolution of civil marriage. To obtain the …
The Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) which has a tendency towards Islam, but secular concurrently raises a question: what is the identity of the AKP? To date, this question is still being debated although generally, AKP has frequently been denoted as a party with an Islamic aspiration. Hence, this paper aims to revisit the identity of the AKP based on the framework of Islamic political…