History bears the fact that universally women and children are the most vulnerable members in the human society. Notwithstanding the role of the women folk in the establishment, nurture and development of the society, gender bias is incontestable whereby women are bedeviled with multi-farious social and economic travails. Islam took the bull bythe horn to...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

The advent of Islam resulted in an extraordinary revolution in human history because of the new intellectual ideology that transformed the way of thinking that was prevalent in 7th-century pre-Islamic Arabian society. This sociocognitive transformation occurred because the ‘aşabiyyah concept was abolished and replaced with a sense of brotherhood based on shared creedal bonds. The...Read More