Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Professionals in Southeast Asia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark B. Lombardi ◽  
Mark Cammack ◽  
Michael Feener ◽  
Amanda Whiting ◽  
Euis Nuraelawati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Professionals

Minority Participation in an Islamic Negara

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li Pang
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Media ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Minority Participation ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Muslim Minorities

On the 1st of May 2014, Negara Brunei Darussalam declared the implementation of an Islamic criminal code of law, thus becoming the first country in modern Southeast Asia to declare so. Inevitably, Brunei was scrutinised by the international media, particularly over its relations with its non-Muslim minorities. This paper investigates the causes of the international media’s anxieties by analysing the socio-political circumstances of the non-Muslim minorities in Brunei, with particular focus on its ethnic Chinese citizens, and with reference to the Islamic Law of Minorities, or ahle dhimmah. Perspectives of the Islamic Law of Minorities toward Brunei’s Chinese citizens are also examined within the political-cultural context of Negara. Thus, exploring simultaneously these concepts, Islam and Negara, this paper asserts that the Islamic Law of Minorities has long been upheld in the Brunei Negara, serving to foster the coexistence of peoples of various ethnic and religious affiliations within the Abode of Peace.

Islamic Law and Society in Southeast Asia

2016 ◽  
pp. 588-608
Author(s):  
Melissa Crouch
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Muslim Minorities

This article explores the ways Islam is recognized by the state in Southeast Asia, along with the scholarly debates that have arisen in response to these Islam-state configurations. It begins with an overview of the work of Professor M. B. Hooker, a pioneer of the field of comparative law in Southeast Asia, especially his study of Islamic law. It then considers how scholars have addressed the regulation and institutionalization of Islam in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and Singapore as well as the tensions and armed conflict between Muslim minorities and the state in Thailand and the Philippines, while largely overlooking Muslim minorities of Myanmar. Finally, it discusses the ongoing challenge of advocating for the importance of the study and contribution of Islamic law in Southeast Asia to the broader field of Islamic legal studies.

Part II Islamic Law and Contracts in Practice, 12 Shari’a-Compliant Funds: Principles and Practical Considerations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmedani Zeeshan ◽  
Alam Safdar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Asset Classes

This concluding chapter explores Shari’a-compliant funds. The Shari’a-compliant funds sector is concentrated in three distinct ways, each of which exemplifies constraints on its ability to grow. First, the sector is still largely concentrated in two regions of the Islamic world: the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Second, the sector is also concentrated in a small number of asset classes. Thus, it does not as yet provide its investor base with the broad spectrum of exposure to geographies, asset classes, strategies, and return profiles that are the hallmark of a mature investment management industry. Third, the Shari’a-compliant funds sector lacks significant diversification across managers, with a handful of large managers still dominating the market. The chapter then looks at the basic tenets of Islamic finance and their application to Shari’a-compliant funds. It also considers the various types of Shari’a-compliant funds, as well as the process of establishing and operating a Shari’a-compliant fund.

scholarly journals Larangan Menggunakan Bangunan atau Tempat untuk Berbuat Asusila perspektif Maqâshid al-Syarî’ah

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Dini Siti Kusumawati
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Se Asia

Abstract: This discusses the prohibition of using any property to perform indecency in Surabaya as regulated by Surabaya municipality’s bylaw No 77/1999. The enactment of this law started in 2012 by the closing of prostitution quarter of Gang Dolly which was considered one of the biggest ones in Southeast Asia. From the perspective of Islamic law, this by law is in agreement with maqâshid al-syarî’ah of hifzh al-dîn (protection of religion) as well as hifzh al-nasl (protection of offspring) in the dharûriyyât (primary rank). This is because prostitution is an ever present offence, regardless time and space. Extra intensive caution should be paid to prevent its return. Effort to improve economic welfare of the population should minimize the reoccurrance of prostitution. Keywords: Prostitution, maqâshid al-syarî’ah, Surabaya. Abstrak: Artikel yang berjudul tinjauan maqâshid al-syarî’ah terhadap Perda Nomor 7 Tahun 1999 tentang Larangan Menggunakan Bangunan atau Tempat untuk Melakukan Perbuatan Asusila di Kota Surabaya. Perda Nomor 7 Tahun 1999 tentang Larangan Menggunakan Bangunan atau Tempat untuk Melakukan Perbuatan Asusila di Kota Surabaya sudah dibuat sejak tahun 1999, namun penerapan Perda ini mengalami ketidakjalanan hukum, dan baru benar-benar diterapkan dari tahun 2012 hingga sampai saat ini, terbukti dari Pemerintah Kota Surabaya yang berhasil menutup lokalisasi Dolly yang merupakan tempat lokalisasi terbesar se-Asia Tenggara. Dalam kajian maqâshid al-syarî’ah, Perda Nomor 7 Tahun 1999 ini termasuk dalam kategori hifzh al-dîn (memelihara agama) dan hifzh al-nasl (memelihara keturunan) dalam peringkat dharûriyyât (primer). Pelacuran memang menjadi fenomena sosial yang tidak mengenal tempat dan suasana. Ia akan senantiasa hadir selama ada yang membutuhkan. Oleh sebab itu, Pemerintah Kota Surabaya harus tetap berupaya untuk memberantas pelacuran dan harus terus melakukan program-progam yang mengarah pada peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat karena kondisi kesejahteraan yang baik akan mengurangi potensi terjadinya pelacuran. Kata Kunci: Maqâshid al-syarî’ah, Perda, Perbuatan asusila.

scholarly journals عروض مختصرة

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (75) ◽  
pp. 232-223
Author(s):  
حنان لطفي زين الدين
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Oxford University

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Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Sepoy Mutiny ◽  
Legal Arbitrage

This chapter recounts how the members of the Arab diaspora attempted legal arbitrage under colonial rule. It analyses the members' expansion and modification of Islamic law, while at other times they policed the boundaries of Islamic law even as mere translators. The chapter tells the story of the surprising involvement of the outsider — the Arab diaspora — in aiding colonialists to accumulate legislative power. The pace of change from the mid-nineteenth century onward was brisk, and the Arab diaspora capitalized on it while attempting to navigate uncertainty and risk. This chapter also investigates how Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia were able to influence the shape of law to a great extent. It takes a look on how concessions to Arabs in the Straits Settlements, in the form of the Mohamedan Marriage Ordinance, and their appointments as members of the Mohamedan Advisory Board after the Sepoy Mutiny subsequently tied them more closely to the British colonial government, along with the rest of the Muslim population in the colony.

Surat Kuasa

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-81
Author(s):  
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Power Of Attorney ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
The Third ◽  
Netherlands Indies

This chapter highlights the importance of paper as a powerful conduit for the spread of jurisdictions in the late colonial period. It compels different authorities to recognize and heed the words of colonial subjects. The chapter also discusses the Surat kuasa, the Malay and Indonesian term for power of attorney, probate, and letters of administration. The power of attorney, also known as volmacht in Dutch, was such a popular device in the Dutch colony. Produced for diverse reasons, powers of attorney were versatile and revocable, and the chapter elaborates three common kinds of powers of attorney: the first dealt with disbursing inheritance shares according to Islamic law; the second was granted by Arabs in Hadramawt to fellow Arabs, usually their relatives or business partners, specifically to manage their business and property in Southeast Asia; and the third was legally controversial and found only in the Netherlands Indies, where colonial subjects classified as “Foreign Orientals,” including Arabs, were restricted from owning certain kinds of property, such as agrarian land, which were reserved for colonial subjects classified as Natives by Dutch authorities. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates a phenomenon called “illegal occupation,” in which some of the land was acquired through the recouping of debts and by transfer of land through powers of attorney.

Compromises

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the institution of the religious endowment known as waqf. In the eyes of colonial authorities, the waqf was essentially a trust, a form of preemptive asset-shielding. The waqf was simultaneously an apotheosis of Arab diaspora's efforts to settle in Southeast Asia and their eventual compromise with colonial authorities. The chapter examines the waqf's complex history in the Islamic world during the fourteenth century and how its revenues are disbursed for a pious purpose. It investigates the Muslim legal practitioners' accusation to the colonial judges of deliberately misinterpreting Islamic law when presiding over cases involving waqfs. The chapter also presents the English legal definition of “charity,” the meaning of charity in colonial courts, and the legal definition of charity in England in cases involving waqfs. Ultimately, the chapter explains the putative opposition of “colonialism” to “Islamic law.” It argues that restrictions imposed by English common law concerning trusts on religious waqfs were exploited by both colonial officials and Arab Muslims who wanted to reap the profits from the sale of failed waqfs.

scholarly journals Malaysia's Syariah Judiciary as Global Assemblage: Islamization, Corporatization, and Other Transformations in Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Peletz
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Day To Day Operations ◽  
Globalized World

AbstractThis essay concerns transformations in the judicial apparatus involved in implementing Islamic law (syariah/shari‘a) in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation in Southeast Asia. Three of my goals are to delineate some of the empirical complexities of thesyariahjudiciary's day-to-day operations and the mutually contradictory directions in which it is moving; to problematize the widely invoked trope of Islamization as a gloss for these phenomena; and to illustrate that this judiciary is profitably viewed as a global assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari 1987; Ong and Collier 2005). Another, more general, objective is to elucidate some of the ways that religion, law, and attendant phenomena are being bureaucratized, rationalized, corporatized, and otherwise transformed in an increasingly globalized world.

scholarly journals Sejarah Mazhab Fikih di Asia Tenggara

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ikhsan
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Constitution

This study explains the historical aspects of the spread of Islamic Jurisprudence in South East Asia which cannot be separated from the history of the spread ofIslam itself in Southeast Asia. It also describes the existence of Islamic jurisprudence as indicated by the intellectual works of Southeast Asian Islamic Jurisprudence scholars, especially in the Shafi'i School. The existence of Islamic jurisprudence was then developed in the form of influences that influence the National Constitution in South East Asia, especially in Indonesia, in the form of Compilation of Islamic Law.

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