Judicial creativity in the Malaysian Shari'ah (Syariah)Courts : the need for paradigm shift

Judicial creativity helps develop law by way of ijtihad. This fact has been proven in various fields of the Shari‘ah. The paper discusses some of these areas and concludes that with the added contribution of qadhis, the Shari‘ah is equally relevant in all spheres of human relations (muamalat) and c...

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Main Author: Mohd Zin, Najibah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information (AENSI), Jordan 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/15880/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/15880/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/15880/1/najibah.pdf
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Summary:Judicial creativity helps develop law by way of ijtihad. This fact has been proven in various fields of the Shari‘ah. The paper discusses some of these areas and concludes that with the added contribution of qadhis, the Shari‘ah is equally relevant in all spheres of human relations (muamalat) and can solve any socio-legal problem in times to come.