Publications & Studies
A growing archive of books, peer-reviewed research, published articles, and intellectual perspectives, documenting an open-ended scholarly and intellectual journey that connects the roots of knowledge with the questions of the present and the transformations of the future, in a space where ideas, experience, research, and reality intersect, and perspectives are renewed as knowledge expands and time unfolds.
Peer-Reviewed Research 17
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2024
Maqāṣid-Oriented Ijtihād in the Treatment of Contemporary Issues
Journal: Journal of Islamic Studies · Vol. 42, No. 3
Journal: Journal of Islamic Studies
Volume / Issue: Vol. 42, No. 3
DOI: 10.1000/peer-2024
A peer-reviewed study applying the methodology of maqāṣid-oriented ijtihād to selected contemporary legal and social issues.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2023
A Comparative Study of Fiqh and Uṣūl al-Fiqh Methodologies
Journal: International Journal of Comparative Law · Vol. 18
Journal: International Journal of Comparative Law
Volume / Issue: Vol. 18
DOI: 10.1000/peer-2023
An analytical comparison of classical and contemporary methodologies in Islamic jurisprudence.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2022
Qur’anic Exegesis Between Classical Tradition and Modern Renewal
Journal: Journal of Qur’anic Studies · Vol. 24
Journal: Journal of Qur’anic Studies
Volume / Issue: Vol. 24
DOI: 10.1000/peer-2022
A study of the methodology of Qur’anic exegesis and the conditions for renewing tafsīr in the modern era.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2024
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
Linguistic Semantics and Its Impact on the Jurisprudence of Understanding and Application
Journal: Al-Amana Center for Research and Scientific Studies
This study examines the foundational role of linguistic semantics in Islamic legal theory and its impact on understanding and applying Sharia rulings. It traces the relationship between Arabic linguistic usage, the formation of legal terminology, jurisprudential understanding, and the application of rulings to contemporary realities. The study further highlights the role of semantic precision in legal characterization, verification of the effective cause, contemporary issues, and the formulation of fatwas, presenting linguistic semantics as a vital bridge between revealed texts and changing realities.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
The Eligibility of Forcibly Displaced Persons for Zakah: A Contemporary Maqāṣid-Based Fiqhi Study
Journal: International Journal of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh Studies – International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
This study examines the eligibility of forcibly displaced persons to receive zakah through a contemporary fiqhi and maqāṣid-based framework. It analyses their possible classification among recognized categories of zakah recipients—including the poor, the wayfarer, and those in debt—according to their circumstances, while considering contemporary realities of forced displacement. The study highlights the role of zakah in promoting justice and human solidarity and proposes practical recommendations for strengthening institutional responses to the needs of displaced populations.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
Arbitrary Divorce between Islamic Sharia and the Bangladeshi Family Law: A Maqāṣid-Based Comparative Analysis in the Light of Justice and Marital Rights
Journal: Journal of Al-Madinah International University (Collective Issue), Issue 55, March 2025–January 2026
This comparative maqāṣid-based study addresses arbitrary divorce as a significant challenge to family stability and marital justice. It examines the substantive safeguards established by Islamic Sharia alongside the procedural framework of Bangladeshi family law, identifying areas of convergence as well as legislative and practical gaps. The study also considers the difficulties affecting women’s access to compensation, including evidentiary, social, and judicial constraints, and advances reform proposals aimed at strengthening marital rights, promoting justice, and preserving the family within a balanced legal framework informed by the objectives of Sharia.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
The Impact of Breaching the Guarantee of Sale Integrity: A Maqāṣid-Based Approach between Islamic Jurisprudence and Bangladeshi Law
Journal: AL-ITQĀN: Journal of Islamic Sciences and Comparative Studies – IIUM Press
This study examines the guarantee of goods being free from defects as a fundamental aspect of consumer protection and contractual justice. Through a comparative Maqāṣid-based analysis, it examines Islamic jurisprudence alongside Bangladeshi legislation, particularly the Consumer Rights Protection Act 2009, the Sale of Goods Act 1930, and the Contract Act 1872. It highlights the shared objective of protecting buyers while identifying differences in legal and juristic mechanisms, and advocates an integrated Maqāṣid-based legislative framework combining Sharīʿah values with statutory safeguards to promote consumer protection, justice, transparency, and sustainable commercial practices.
Co-authors: Abdulhamid Mohamed Ali Zaroum
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
The Influence of the Arabic Language on the Formation of Jurisprudential and Usul Principles: An Applied Analytical Study on the Conjunctions of Exception, Condition, Purpose, and Negation
Journal: Al-Risalah: Journal of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (ARJIHS) – International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
How can a subtle linguistic structure redirect juristic reasoning? This study explores the role of exception, condition, purpose, and negation in shaping the meanings of Sharīʿah texts. Through Qur’anic and Prophetic examples and comparative analysis of grammatical and Usul interpretations, it reveals the intricate relationship between Arabic linguistic structure and the diversity of juristic reasoning.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
Seeking Fatwa from a Different School of Thought to Avoid Hardship: A Foundational and Applied Juridical Study on the Issue of Triple Talaq
Journal: Al-Risalah: Journal of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences (ARJIHS), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2025
When may a Muslim seek a fatwa beyond the school of law he ordinarily follows in order to relieve genuine hardship? This study approaches the question through the particularly consequential case of triple talaq, bringing juristic disagreement into direct conversation with the realities of family life. It examines the legitimacy and limits of consulting another madhhab, the distinction between legitimate facilitation and the pursuit of concessions, and the role of maqāṣid and consequences in guiding fatwa. Through an inductive, analytical, comparative, and applied approach, the study highlights how disciplined juristic plurality can provide recognized avenues for alleviating hardship while preserving the integrity of legal reasoning and the responsibilities of the mufti.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
The Methodology of Reform in the Missions of the Prophets in Confronting Corruption: A Qur’anic Analytical Study
Journal: At-Tajdid Journal, Vol. 30, No. 59, Shaʿban 1447 AH / January 2026, pp. 263–312. Published by IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia.
Corruption, in the prophetic paradigm, is treated as a multidimensional disruption extending from belief and moral character to social, political, and economic life. Through an analytical reading of Qur’anic accounts of the prophets, this study reconstructs the principal patterns of corruption they confronted and examines the reform mechanisms embedded in their missions. It highlights an integrated trajectory of reform that begins with restoring the creedal and ethical foundations of human life and proceeds toward legal rectification and social transformation. By bringing Qur’anic guidance into critical conversation with contemporary reform approaches, the study offers a normative framework for understanding reform as a comprehensive civilizational undertaking rather than a set of isolated procedural responses.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
The Friday Pulpit Between Idle Talk and Reverence: The Phenomenon of Mental and Behavioral Distraction from the Sermon in Light of the Prophetic Sunnah
Journal: Al-Burhān Journal of Qurʾān and Sunnah Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2025, pp. 117–138, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia.
The Friday Pulpit Between Idle Talk and Reverence: The Phenomenon of Mental and Behavioral Distraction from the Sermon in Light of the Prophetic Sunnah
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
Titles and Ranks in Contemporary Religious Discourse Between Commodification and Deviation: A Critical Foundational Study in Light of the Revelatory Texts and the Objectives of Shariah
Journal: International Islamic Sciences Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 3, September 2025, Al-Madinah International University (MEDIU), Malaysia..
Religious titles are more than ceremonial expressions; they carry meanings that can shape authority, public perception, and the standing of scholars within society. Against the backdrop of their expanding and sometimes unregulated use, this study critically examines the commodification and misuse of titles and ranks in contemporary religious discourse. Grounded in revelatory texts and the objectives of Shariah, it identifies the governing principles for conferring titles, analyzes forms of excessive praise and expressions bearing problematic creedal implications, and considers their consequences for scholarly credibility and communal cohesion. Particular attention is given to the digital age, where visibility, promotion, and rapid circulation can amplify inflated titles and reshape perceptions of religious authority. The study advocates a balanced framework that combines Shariah guidelines, Maqāṣid-based awareness, responsible digital practice, and public education to preserve moderation, scholarly dignity, and the integrity of religious discourse.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2025
The Betrayal of Journalistic Expression in Contemporary Reality: A Study in Light of Scriptural Texts and Maqasid al-Shariah, Compared with International Standards
Journal: International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), Vol. 13, Issue 09, September 2025, pp. 925–938, ISSN (Online): 2320-5407, ISSN (Print): 3107-4928, DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/21780.
A journalist’s word can inform, protect, and reform; it can also distort reality and damage rights when detached from truth and responsibility. This study examines the betrayal of journalistic expression through manifestations including misinformation, deliberate falsehood, rumor propagation, manipulation, blackmail, defamation, and violations of privacy. Drawing upon scriptural texts and Maqasid al-Shariah, it places these practices alongside international standards of journalism to identify areas of convergence and divergence in the regulation of expression and professional responsibility. The analysis culminates in a proposed Shariah-compliant media charter that seeks to harmonize freedom of the press with ethical accountability, protection of rights, justice, and public trust. In this framework, responsible journalism emerges as an ethical trust capable of turning public expression into an instrument of awareness and reform.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
The Battle of Consciousness in Bangladesh between Misguidance and Enlightenment: A Qur’anic and Prophetic Reading of Contemporary Intellectual Challenges
Journal: al-Burhān Journal of Qurʾān and Sunnah Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2026, IIUM Press
Focusing on the intellectual landscape of contemporary Bangladesh, this study examines the struggle over consciousness through the guiding framework of the Qur’an and Prophetic tradition. It traces major challenges—including extremism, radicalism, Westernisation, dualistic thinking, secularism, and atheism—and considers their impact on religious, cultural, and social identity, particularly among youth. The study connects these challenges with spiritual emptiness, weakened faith-based education, and unregulated intellectual openness, while advancing an integrated reform vision encompassing education, balanced personality formation, and the renewal of da‘wah and media discourse. It ultimately presents intellectual revival as a convergence of faith, reason, and purposeful action capable of nurturing a moderate, critically aware, and resilient society.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
The Leadership Crisis in Muslim Societies: Between Foundational Paradigms and Institutional Realities
Journal: Al-Risalah Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, June 2026, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
This study explores the leadership crisis in Muslim societies as a multidimensional challenge affecting collective awareness, institutional development, decision-making, competence selection, succession, accountability, and the relationship between values and practice. It examines the Islamic intellectual and normative foundations of leadership alongside its historical and contemporary transformations, identifying major patterns of dysfunction that have weakened its effectiveness and continuity. These include the gap between foundational principles and practical implementation, personalization of authority, institutional weakness, deficient consultative practices, inconsistent standards of integrity and competence, and inadequate preparation of successive generations of leaders. Against this background, the study develops a reform-oriented vision that reconnects leadership with its ethical and maqāṣid-based foundations while shifting emphasis from dependence on individuals toward resilient systems and institutions capable of producing, renewing, and sustaining sound leadership in response to contemporary challenges.
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Peer-Reviewed Research 2026
Narrative and Political Dialectics in the Contemporary Arabic Novel: A Critical Reading of Transformations in Form and the Construction of Consciousness
Journal: Al-Amana Center for Research and Scientific Studies
This study examines the dynamic relationship between narrative form and political experience in the contemporary Arabic novel, tracing how transformations in authority, conflict, memory, exile, identity, and social change have reshaped literary representation. Through critical readings of selected Arabic novels from diverse historical and geographical contexts, it explores polyphony, fragmented temporality, documentary narration, symbolism, fantasy, historical imagination, and alternative memory as aesthetic strategies for questioning dominant narratives and reconstructing cultural consciousness. The study shows that political meaning in the Arabic novel is produced not only through subject matter but also through narrative structure itself—through who speaks, how time is organized, how knowledge is distributed, and how readers participate in constructing meaning. It ultimately highlights the novel as a vital space for preserving memory, interrogating power, rebuilding identity, and deepening critical awareness.