Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia

This paper looks at the interplay between the administration of Islamic law in Malaysia in relation to Islamic family law and Islamic criminal law and human rights. The paper examines the basis of the administration of Islam in Malaysia relating to its history and post-independence mandate. It looks...

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Main Author:	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/22/56169.pdf

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spelling	iium-561692017-04-18T08:20:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/ Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia Shuaib, Farid Sufian K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia This paper looks at the interplay between the administration of Islamic law in Malaysia in relation to Islamic family law and Islamic criminal law and human rights. The paper examines the basis of the administration of Islam in Malaysia relating to its history and post-independence mandate. It looks at the position of human rights under the Federal Constitution and the position of the administration of Islamic law under the constitutional framework. The research found that entrenching of the fundamental liberties through the supremacy clause resulted in the prevalence of human rights over freedom of religion. However, this is not consistently arrived at since the constitutional frameworks allows for plurality of laws and exclusion of personal law from the principle of equality. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/22/56169.pdf Shuaib, Farid Sufian (2017) Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia. In: Workshop on the Human Rights Discourse in the Administration of Islamic Law in Malaysia and Indonesia, 16th March 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
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topic	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia
spellingShingle	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia Shuaib, Farid Sufian Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
description	This paper looks at the interplay between the administration of Islamic law in Malaysia in relation to Islamic family law and Islamic criminal law and human rights. The paper examines the basis of the administration of Islam in Malaysia relating to its history and post-independence mandate. It looks at the position of human rights under the Federal Constitution and the position of the administration of Islamic law under the constitutional framework. The research found that entrenching of the fundamental liberties through the supremacy clause resulted in the prevalence of human rights over freedom of religion. However, this is not consistently arrived at since the constitutional frameworks allows for plurality of laws and exclusion of personal law from the principle of equality.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
author_facet	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
author_sort	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
title	Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
title_short	Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
title_full	Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia
title_sort	administration of islamic law and human rights: the basis and its trajectory in malaysia
publishDate	2017
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/56169/22/56169.pdf
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Administration of Islamic law and human rights: The basis and its trajectory in Malaysia

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