Local Family Fiqh in Malaysia: An Analysis of `Urf Methodological Framework (Fiqh Keluarga Tempatan Di Malaysia: Suatu Analisis Rangka Kerja Metodologi ‘Urfi)

Authors

  • Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef Professor, Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, KIRKHS, IIUM
  • Miszairi Sitiris Asst. Prof, Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, KIRKHS, IIUM
  • Saidatolakma Mohd Yunus Asst. Prof, Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, KIRKHS, IIUM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31436/jia.v17i3.933

Keywords:

Family Fiqh, Local, Methodological Framework, Reform

Abstract

The ongoing advocacy for developing local fiqh, among others, emphasizes an indigenous approach to evolving fiqh by highlighting the flaws in the dominant approach to family law reform and renewal. One of their methodological tools is to examine the existing family fiqh from its ‘urfi based content as well to explore ways of resolving new emerging usages and customs, which differ from custom of people in other communities in the Muslim world. Critics, however, have some misgivings about this approach and see it as a kind of post-modernist thinking, the thrust of which is to raise skepticism about religious content of any intellectual argument or advocacy.  To rebut such an argument, following content analysis method, this paper argues by concluding that an Islamic juridical approach to insist on legislative significance of local custom in evolving a local family fiqh is governed by a set of methodological frameworks and parameters which can safeguard it against any suspicion for secularization. 

Keywords: Family fiqh, local, methodological framework, reform. 

Abstrak

Sokongan umum yang berterusan untuk membangunkan fiqh tempatan, antara lain, menekankan pendekatan tempatan untuk mengembangkan fiqh dengan menonjolkan kekurangan dalam pendekatan yang dominan terhadap pembaharuan dan pembaharuan undang-undang keluarga. Salah satu alat metodologi mereka adalah untuk mengkaji fiqh keluarga yang sedia ada dari kandungan 'urfi yang berasaskannya juga untuk meneroka cara penyelesaian kegunaan dan kebiasaan yang baru muncul, yang berbeza dari kebiasaan orang dalam komuniti lain di dunia Islam. Pengkritik, bagaimanapun, mempunyai beberapa kekeliruan mengenai pendekatan ini dan melihatnya sebagai sejenis pemikiran post-modernis, teras yang menimbulkan keraguan tentang kandungan agama tentang sebarang hujah intelektual atau advokasi. Untuk menolak hujah sedemikian itu dengan menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan, makalah ini telah berupaya untuk menyimpulkan bahawa pendekatan yuridis Islam untuk menegaskan kepentingan perundangan adat tempatan dalam mengembangkan sebuah fiqh keluarga tempatan ditadbir oleh satu set kerangka metodologi dan parameter yang dapat melindunginya daripada sebarang kecurigaan untuk sekularisasi.

Kata Kunci: Fiqh keluarga, tempatan, kerangka metodologi, pembaharuan.

 

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2020-11-04

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Shah Haneef, S. S., Sitiris, M., & Mohd Yunus, S. (2020). Local Family Fiqh in Malaysia: An Analysis of `Urf Methodological Framework (Fiqh Keluarga Tempatan Di Malaysia: Suatu Analisis Rangka Kerja Metodologi ‘Urfi). Journal of Islam in Asia (E-ISSN 2289-8077), 17(3), 117–133. https://doi.org/10.31436/jia.v17i3.933