Islamic Family Law Review of Contemporary Dowry: Case Study of Mosque Dowry in Indonesian Artist Marriages

The phenomenon of mosque dowry in Indonesian celebrity marriages, with the aim of exploring its validity according to Islamic family law. Dowry, as an essential component in marriage and a symbol of appreciation, has evolved in form, giving rise to mosque dowry, which raises significant questions regarding its legal status. This study uses a case study method with data sources from Islamic scholars' books, interviews with experts, and social media; this study found that mosques must have waqf status, making them unable to be traded, donated, or inherited. This finding is consistent with the legal principle of dowry agreed upon by most scholars of the four schools of thought, namely that the dowry must be in the form of objects that can be traded. Therefore, the mosque dowry is declared invalid. This conclusion is also in line with the opinion of the Chairman of the Fatwa Commission of the Indonesian Ulema Council of East Java, who emphasized the invalidity of the mosque dowry so that the consequence is the obligation to pay a mitsli dowry. However, the marriage remains valid because scholars argue that the dowry is not a condition or pillar of marriage. This study provides critical insight into the implementation of waqf law and Islamic family law in the context of contemporary marriage practices in Indonesia

Analisis Iddah Dan Ihdad Perempuan Modern Perspektif Fuqaha

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Revisiting the Mamlūk empire : political action, relationships of power, entangled networks, and the sultanate of Cairo in late medieval Syro-Egypt

This chapter’s questions the commonly assumed link between political practices of integration and integrity on the one hand – which appear as empirical realities from many sources and studies – and the Syro-Egyptian Sultanate of Cairo (13th-16th centuries) as a dominant, autonomous and imperial historical actor on the other. It problematizes in particular the holistic nature of these assumptions, their merely descriptive value for understanding the region’s history, and the potentially misleading consequences of their normative character. At the same time, this chapter proposes to reflect further on the powerful idea of the Sultanate as an empire. It actually considers this notion of “empire” as a useful way out of this predicament, because it invites to engage with insights from other fields of historical research and to define valuable analytical tools, including from social network theory, to further and refine current assumptions about and understandings of late medieval Syro-Egyptian political action. Confronting such tools with various cases from the center and the peripheries of that Syro-Egyptian political action, this chapter argues that the imperial appearances of the Syro-Egyptian Sultanate were always constructed in the micro-history of people and their negotiation of particular cultural, socio-economic and political relationships, which were extremely fluid and multivalent, permeable, and continuously organized around the court in Cairo