The tribal conflict paradigm traces the roots of tribal conflict in the ancient history of the Arabs where the northern Arabs of Qays and Southern Arabs of Yemen were the competing forces. The modern scholars illustrate their theory by explaining the historic tribal rivalries revealed in the chronicles especially in the history of al-abar. These...Read More

This article argues that similar to the centrality of the concept of sovereignty in Western social, legal, and political paradigms, at the core of Sunni legal and political history there is a paradigmatic authority of Ulu Al Amr (those in authority or the legal scholars who possess a legal mastery over the sources that constitute...Read More

This article discusses a debate within the formulation of Islamic Family Law in Indonesia, especially the various figures behind. Involving in that case is how far the practice of law negotiation implemented to respond unsatisfied groups over the formulation offered within the formal legislation (UU Marriage Number.1/1974 and Islamic Law Compilation [KHI]) or non-formal (Counter...Read More

The present paper focuses on the conflict of the two main identity maker factors for a modern Muslim woman: the Islamic rules and modernity’s manifestations. In some Middle-Eastern societies, because of the strong social religious structures and depth of the personal religious beliefs, this conflict has more severity. In this paper, with a descriptive-analytical method,...Read More