Today, the issue of illegitimate child (IC) birth is a pressing matter for the Muslim community in Malaysia. It threatens the community in terms of social relationship aspect as well as the Islamic practice relating to the fatwa on nasab (ruling of lineage). Consequently, this paper intends to explain the problems oftoIC with a qualitative...Read More

The past two decades of academic work, have cemented the idea that childhood is a social construction. As such, how children are conceptualized, educated, protected and interacted with differs from society to society, given the values inherent in each social construction. Culture, history and geography all influence the daily lives of children, and the inherent...Read More

The Royal Decree allowing Morisco slavery was issued by King Philip II in 1573, following the defeat of Morisco rebels in the Alpujarras mountains (north of Granada andalusia), thus ending a war that had lasted three years (1569-1571). Moriscos (Muslims who had remained in the Kingdom of Granada following its conquest by the Catholic Monarchs...Read More

This chapter explores the brand of Islamic children’s literature produced in diaspora, in order to discern how this supplementary educational tool has responded to key concerns of Islamic education. How is Islamic faith staged in diasporic literary depiction? What innovative formats are employed and how does such innovation affect the content? Rather than understanding this...Read More