{"title":"Ibn Khaldūn and Kınalızāde’s Concept of Dāʾirat al-Siyāsah: A Rethinking of Modern Politics from A Civilisational Perspective","authors":"Recep Senturk","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol17no1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol17no1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates that Islamic civilisation is characterised by a unique circular model of political and administrative system as articulated by Ibn Khaldūn and his Ottoman successor, Kınalızāde, in the concept of the circle of politics (dāʾirat al-siyāsah). It offers a new perspective to the current quest for good governance from a Khaldunian perspective by presenting an alternative way of restructuring contemporary politics and society in a circular order for a more effective and egalitarian system open to citizen participation. The pyramidal governance structure, having no roots in Islamic political theory and practice, positions the subjects at the bottom of the political hierarchy and the ruler at its pinnacle, which leads to significant disparities. Conversely, the circular system espouses an egalitarian and participatory political order rooted in the sunnah of Prophet Muḥammad. This model, embraced by Muslims for centuries until the era of colonisation, engenders a more inclusive and engaging approach to governance. Furthermore, this study contends that the circular model of governance is applicable beyond political institutions to a larger range of social entities as a method of reforming and improving them.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141371645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pendekatan Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī dalam Menyantuni Ḥadīth-Ḥadīth yang Menyanggah Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: Sorotan Fatḥ al-Bārī bi Sharḥ Saḥīḥ al-Bukhārī","authors":"Ahmad Izzuddin Abu Bakar","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Undoubtedly, much research has been done on the method of dealing mutually contradicting hadiths. However, a review on books of hadith commentaries reveals more detailed approaches hitherto unmentioned. The objective of this paper is to identify the approach used by Ibn Ḥajar al- ʿAsqalānī in his Fatḥ al-Bārī bi Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī in addressing ḥadīths that convey contradictory meanings to the ḥadīths of al-Bukhārī. It uses the method of content analysis on the first chapter, Badʾ al-Waḥy, which consisted of elaborations of eight ḥadīths. The result shows that there are four approaches conducted by Ibn Ḥajar that can be derived from the chapter. These are: rejecting the contradictory ḥadīths if their status is weak; pointing to the different contexts in which the ḥadīths are uttered; acknowledging the meanings of the ḥadīths in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī as the norm; and concluding that the matn of the ḥadīths is an expression of the transmitters themselves.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"339 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139152237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population Outside the Labour Force, Its Causes and Potential: A Review from An Islamic Perspective","authors":"Nur Syahidah Abdul Jalil","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The population outside the labour force refers to individuals who are not classified as employed or unemployed. The Department of Statistics Malaysia have classified individuals who are not interested in jobs into six main reasons: (1) attending school or training programmes, (2) homeworking or family responsibilities, (3) pursuing further studies, (4) disability, (5) disinterest, and (6) retirement. Based on the data, there is no specific trend to the population outside the labour force in Malaysia. However, there are concerns about the lack of information on the population outside the labour force in Malaysia which may result in them being discounted from the labour force. On the flip side, technological advancement, working arrangement, and new “non-standard” employment are part of the factors that may have influenced this population to remain outside of the labour force. This paper highlights the importance of revisiting the meaning of employment, especially in the new way of working arrangements so that policymakers are able to assemble accurate labour market information in making strategic moves in accordance with the needs and demands of every sector. In addition, this paper also explores the Islamic view of the trend in the wider context, going beyond the terms of wage and profit.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"44 41","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139151284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kasb: A Comparative Study of the Concept of Economics in Islamic and Modern Economics","authors":"Amru Sazali","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Kasb literature is a genre of works highlighting the exhortation to work and be involved in worldly material affairs, while being attentive to its perils, on the grounds that true reliance is on God alone and each individual man is responsible for his own actions, which must adhere to the boundaries of ethics and morality (akhlāq). Unlike modern economics, the concept of kasb emerges from the outlook of absolute monotheism; thus, man’s involvement in economic activities from the kasb point of view has spiritual and transcendental purposes. On the other hand, modern economics deals only with the physical and material aspects of life, disregarding especially the metaphysical aspects of man. The usage of the term kasb in referring to economics-related discussions can be found persistently throughout the Islamic intellectual tradition, especially in works concerning ethics and spiritual manuals on embarking on a righteous life. Unfortunately, this genre of literature has been scantily explored to date. Hence, this paper aims to examine and analyse the concept of kasb in the Islamic economic tradition and compare it to its parallel in modern economics. The first section deals with the term kasb as used in the works of past scholars. It will then be followed by the discussion on the concept of kasb and a suggestion on the reorientation of the meaning of economics. Understanding the concept of kasb provides a proper basis for the actualisation of wholesome work (alkasb al-ṭayyib) to attain the overarching objectives of the common good (al-maṣlaḥah al-ʿāmmah) and the good life (al-ḥayāh al-ṭayyibah).","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worldview, Strategy, and Strategic Principles in Three Muslim Military Treatises","authors":"Muhammad Husni Mohd. Amin","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study looks into the origins of strategy in Islām and its development from metaphysical, historiographical, and textual perspectives. Corresponding “strategy” with the terms siyāsah, ḥiyal, and tadbīr in Muslim lexicology, it uses semantic field analysis to examine how the term and concept have been used by the Muslims, particularly within the Sunnī-Ashʿarite metaphysical framework. Historiographical method is used to examine the development of strategy from pre-Islamic times, during the Prophetic period, and in the significant periods of the ʿAbbasid-Ayyūbid partnership and the beginning of the Timūrid era. The study also examines the text of three Muslim military treatises, each representing a different Muslim era in order to postulate the existence of an Islamic military tradition. Finally, the study analyses interpretatively the recurrent themes across the selected works and summarises them into strategic principles.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"4 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Scientific Approach for Integrating Science’s Outputs and Islamic Concepts—Part 2","authors":"Ahmed Mabrouk","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.1","url":null,"abstract":"The intellectual Muslim community lives in a dichotomy between faith and science. On one hand, the Islamic teaching tells us that knowledge brings us closer to God and substantiates our faith with rational evidence. On the other hand, the predominant western culture in scientific circles rejects the concept of believing in the unseen and classifies it under the topic of metaphysics, with all the negative connotations associated with this topic. As a result, the path of living according to faith and the path of scientific investigation grew divergent from each other, with no apparent point of intersection. This article is aimed at removing the obstacles erected by the empiricists in the scientific method, which hinder the integration of religious knowledge and scientific output in a unified framework. Our discussion of the scientific method from an Islamic perspective shows that rational and empirical faculties can be utilised to their fullest potential in a complementary manner. Emerging from the concept that religion and science are two valuable engines of human civilisation, an ideologybased approach for the study of natural systems can be adopted. This second part of the article sets the foundation for integrating induction and deduction in a unified framework.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn bin Kamāl al-Dīn al-Āshī and His Asrār al‐Sulūk ilā Malik al-Mulūk","authors":"Azmi Mohammed Nor, Wan Suhaimi Wan Abdullah","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no2.5","url":null,"abstract":"During its heyday, Acheh was not only a commercial, but also an Islamic intellectual center in the Malay archipelago that produced several prominent Muslim scholars or ‛ulamā’ who enriched Islamic literary works. The most illustrious among the native sons of Acheh were Ḥamzah al-Fansūrī, Shams al-Dīn b. ‘Abd Allāh al-Sumatrānī , and ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf al-Fanṣūrī al-Sinkilī. Hitherto, the study on native Achehnese ‛ulamā’ of the seventeenth century has largely focused on these illustrious figures while little attention has been paid to another native Achehnese ‛ālim, namely Shaykh Fāqih Jalāl al-Dīn b. Kamāl al-Dīn b. Qadhi Baginda Khatīb at-Tarusanī al-Āshī despite the fact that he held a very prominent position of Qāḍī Malik al-‘Adil, equivalent to Supreme Court Judge during the reigns of Sulṭān ‘Alā´ al-Dīn Maharaja Lela Ahmad Shah (r. 1727-1735 CE) and Sulṭān ‘Alā´ al-Dīn Johan Shah (r. 1735-1760 CE). Furthermore, the study of his literary works has mainly centered around his works on jurisprudence (fiqh), thus neglecting his literary contribution in taṣawwuf. This article therefore wishes to bring to light his valuable contributions in the field of taṣawwuf through his work Asrār al‐Sulūk Ilā Maliki al-Mulūk rendered into Malay by the author himself as Rahsia Menjalani Jalan kepada Raja Segala Raja so that he is properly recognized not only as a fāqih, but also a ṣūfī.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"318 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodological and Discursive Considerations for Islamic Bioethics Research and Writing","authors":"A. Padela","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The past two decades have witnessed a substantial interest in Islamic bioethics research and writing. As more papers are published and a greater number of conferences are held, it is important to reflect on the concepts and concerns that frame the emerging discourse and its nascent academic literature. Accordingly, this paper begins by reflecting on the term Islamic bioethics and the motivations that spur Islamic bioethical deliberation. In so doing, it calls for paying attention to the normative and methodological implications of uniting the disparate discourses represented by the conjunctive term. To further assist consumers in distinguishing various types of Islamic bioethics research and writing, three general categories of scholarly work—Islamic bioethics, Muslim bioethics, and applied Islamic bioethics—are introduced. Next, the paper outlines several lacunae in the extant academic Islamic bioethics literature that emerge from an incomplete engagement with the foundations, elements, and nature of contemporary bioethics discourse. Finally, in order to advance the field and better engage with contemporary bioethical questions, the paper closes by underscoring the need for Islamic bioethics research and writing to become multidisciplinary and involve multilevel ethical analysis.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117306131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Honouring the Religious Rights of the LGBTQ Persons: An Islamic Perspective","authors":"","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) is a term that is no longer unknown to the people of this country. Media reports about their movement keep the public informed about their developments locally and internationally. The behaviour and lifestyle of the LGBTQ persons are at odds, not only with the sharīʿah, but also with local laws, culture, and practices. Nevertheless, advocates of the LGBTQ movement are striving to obtain universal rights that they claimed to be the LGBTQ persons’ rights in social life. While the movement claims to protect the rights of LGBTQ persons, they have been found to deny the most fundamental right, namely religious freedom. This religious freedom allows them to undergo rehabilitation to live a dignified life. The denial of religious freedom coincides with the international movement to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1990. It also coincides with efforts to remove the term “gender disorder” from the list of mental disorders. At the national level, various initiatives are being taken by JAKIM, state religious authorities, and several non-governmental organisations to fulfil the rights of the LGBTQ persons to receive guidance through religious programmes. Nevertheless, these good efforts, in particular, Mukhayyam programmes, have been deliberately juxtaposed with Western conversion therapy practices. This article will focus on the importance of preserving the religious rights of LGBTQ persons and the challenges faced in implementing relevant religious programmes. This article highlights the importance of rehabilitation programmes such as Mukhayyam by providing a legal and ambigous phrase of the religious rights of the LGBTQ persons. The research finds that the continuation of rehabilitation programmes such as Mukhayyam needs to be protected to ensure that the LGBTQ persons will get a proper platform to seek religious guidance.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114261622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keutamaan Bercucuk Tanam dan Kedaulatan Makanan: Analisis terhadap kitab al-Barakah fī Faḍl alSaʿy wa al-Ḥarakah karangan Shaykh Muḥammad Al-Ḥubayshī","authors":"Rizky Febrian, Sarif Hidayatullah","doi":"10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56389/tafhim.vol16no1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this article is to show some important aspects of agriculture as an obligation towards society (farḍ al-kifāyah) with regard to food sovereignty as understood from the book al-Barakah fī Faḍl al-Saʿy wa al-Ḥarakah written by Sheikh Muḥammad al-Ḥubayshī (d. 782 H). It begins with a discussion of the background of the study the author, and the work itself. This article also explains the importance of agricultural work and the encouragement to cultivate based on the Quran and prophetic tradition. In addition, this article also presents some valuable lessons from the book regarding the nature of work, farming, and worldly wealth. Tujuan utama artikel ini adalah untuk menunjukkan beberapa aspek penting dalam pertanian sebagai satu usaha fardu kifayah ke arah kedaulatan makanan seperti yang difahami daripada kitab al-Barakah fī Faḍl al-Saʿy wa al-Ḥarakah yang ditulis oleh Syeikh Muḥammad al-Ḥubayshī (w. 782 H). Artikel ini bermula dengan perbincangan latar belakang kajian, pengarang dan karya itu sendiri. Artikel ini juga menghuraikan kepentingan kerjakerja pertanian dan seruan untuk bercucuk tanam berdasarkan al-Quran dan sunah kenabian. Di samping itu, artikel ini turut membentangkan beberapa pengajaran berharga daripada kitab berkenaan hakikat pekerjaan, bercucuk tanam dan harta dunia.","PeriodicalId":430568,"journal":{"name":"TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114825961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}