Islam and Civilisational Renewal A journal devoted to contemporary issues and policy research Special Issue: The Family Institution in the Twenty-First Century – Ideals and Realities Selected Papers from an International Conference of December 2010 (held with the Cooperation of the Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development) Volume 3 • Number 1 • October 2011 Produced and distributed by ISSN 2041–871X (Print) ISSN 2041–8728 (Online) © INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED ISLAMIC STUDIES 2011 ICR 3-1 00 prelims 1 20/09/2011 13:20 ISLAM AND CIVILISATIONAL RENEWAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali EDITOR Professor Emeritus Datuk Osman Bakar ASSOCIATE EDITORS Christoph Marcinkowski Karim D. Crow ADVISORY BOARD Abdul Hadi Widji Muthari, John Esposito, United States Sachiko Murata, United States Indonesia Marcia Hermansen, United Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysia Ibrahim Abu Rabi‘, Canada States Seyyed Hossein Nasr, United Syed Farid Alatas, Singapore Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Turkey States Syed Othman Al-Habshi, Anthony H. Johns, Australia Tariq Ramadhan, United Malaysia Khalijah Mohd Salleh, Malaysia Kingdom Amin Abdullah, Indonesia Yasushi Kosugi, Japan Mathias Rohe, Germany Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Pakistan Mahmood Zuhdi b. Hj Abdul Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, Azizan Baharuddin, Malaysia Majid, Malaysia Malaysia Azyumardi Azra, Indonesia Khalid Masud, Pakistan Miroslav Volf, United States Mustafa Cerić, Bosnia Ingrid Mattson, United States John O. Voll, United States Herzegovina Ali A. Mazrui, United States Timothy Winter (alias Abdal Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey Abbas Mirakhor, Islamic Hakim Murad), United W. Cole Durham, Jr, United Republic of Iran Kingdom States Mostafa Mohaghegh-Damad, Carl W. Ernst, United States Islamic Republic of Iran OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE • Islam and Civilisational Renewal (ICR) is an international peer-reviewed journal published by Pluto Journals on behalf of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS). It carries articles, book reviews and viewpoints on civilisational renewal. • ICR seeks to advance critical research and original scholarship on theoretical, empirical, historical, inter-disciplinary and comparative studies, with a focus on policy research. • ICR aims at stimulating creative and original contributions within contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim scholarship to further civilisational renewal. • ICR promotes advanced research on the civilisational progress of Muslims and critical assessments of modernity, post-modernity and globalisation. CONTRIBUTIONS AND Editorial CORRESPONDENCE Notes to contributors and details of submission can be found at: ICR.plutojournals.org Comments and suggestions as well as requests to contact one of the contributing authors can be emailed to the Managing Editor at: [email protected] ICR 3-1 00 prelims 2 20/09/2011 13:20 CONTENTS Editorial 6 Mohammad Hashim Kamali In Focus Family Values, the Family Institution, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: An Islamic Perspective 12 Osman Bakar Articles Islamic Family Law Reform: Problems and Prospects 37 Mohammad Hashim Kamali The Qur’ānic Model on Social Change: Family Structure as a Method of Social Reform 53 Zainab Alwani Dysfunctional Families and Crime: Righting Wrongs 75 Zaleha Kamaruddin Gender Relations in Singapore Malay Dual-Income Households: (Un)Changing Perceptions and Practices 90 Suriani Suratman The ‘Islamic Women’s’ Movement: Transition from the Private Domain to the Public Sphere 116 Ömer Çaha Filial Piety in Confucianism and Islam: A Comparative Literary Analysis of Qur’ān, Ḥadīth, and Four Chinese Classics 133 Osman bin Abdullah (Chuah Hock Leng), Abdul Salam Muhamad Shukri, and Normala Othman Analogical Reasoning (Qiyās) and the Commodification of Women: Applying Commercial Concepts to the Marital Relationship in Islamic Law 154 Mohammad Omar Farooq Viewpoints The Greeting of Peace-Security (al-Salāmu ʿalaykum): Uncovering the Basis of Islamic Peace 181 Karim D. Crow ICR 3.1 Produced and distributed by Pluto Journals ICR.plutojournals.org ICR 3-1 00 prelims 3 20/09/2011 13:20 4 ISLAM AND CIVILISATIONAL RENEWAL The Sharīʿah’s Stand on Abandoned Children 187 Mohammad Hashim Kamali The Blame-Game: The Politicisation of Western and Muslim Sexual Vices 189 Christoph Marcinkowski Contemporary Malaysian Families: Evidence-Based Interventions 193 Aminah Abdul Rahman The Dilemma of Abandoned Babies Needs a Unified Approach 200 Zarina Nalla Book Reviews Christoph Marcinkowski (ed.), The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation 205 Eric Winkel Ibrahim Ahmad Aliyu, Protection of Women’s Rights under the Shari‘ah 207 Karim D. Crow Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Das Kapital: Ein Plädoyer für den Menschen [Capital: a plea for the human being] 213 Christoph Marcinkowski Peter Watson, The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century 216 Christoph Marcinkowski Mehran Kamrava (ed.), Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions 219 Tauseef Ahmad Parray Alwi Shihab, Examining Islam in the West: Addressing Accusations and Correcting Misconceptions 224 Zarina Nalla Events and Significant Developments International Conference on the Family Institution in the Twenty-First Century: Ideals and Realities. Conference Recommendations (13–14 December 2010, IAIS Malaysia) 228 Zarina Nalla Closed-Door Lecture by Professor Volker Nienhaus on “Islamic Capital Markets and the Public Interest (Maṣlaḥah)”, organised by the Malaysian Securities Commission and the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, 9 June 2011) 233 Sheila Ainon Yussof Interview with Professor John O. Voll on the Future of Islamic Studies 235 Zarina Nalla Islam and Civilisational Renewal ICR 3-1 00 prelims 4 20/09/2011 13:20 CONTENTS 5 Obituary Ibrahim Abu-Rabi‛ (1956–2011) 240 Karim D. Crow Notes on the Contributors 242 Aims of the Journal 248 Call for Papers 249 Guidelines for Contributors 250 Transliteration Table 251 Subscription Rates 252 ICR 3.1 Produced and distributed by Pluto Journals ICR.plutojournals.org ICR 3-1 00 prelims 5 20/09/2011 13:20 EDITORIAL This Special Issue of Islam and Civilisational Renewal carries selected papers from the ‘International Conference on the Family Institution in the Twenty-First Century: Ideals and Realities’, held at IAIS Malaysia on 13–14 December 2010. The event was jointly organised by IAIS Malaysia, the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM), Yayasan Pendidikan Islam (YPI), Yayasan Ubaidi, the Journalists and Writers Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and the Malaysian Turkish Dialogue Society, and officiated by Senator Dato’ Sri Sharizat Abdul Jalil, Malaysia’s Minister of Women, Family and Community Development. The two-day international conference was a parallel event to an earlier three-day international conference entitled ‘Family as a Value in Religion, Tradition, and Modernity’, held in Antalya on 26–27 November 2010. The aim of the Antalya conference was to go back to the roots of the family institution and the family values that are common to all religious traditions and cultures. The Kuala Lumpur conference was more focused in the sense that it dealt only with some of the themes that were discussed in Antalya. Moreover, it concentrated on the family traditions in Southeast Asia and their common challenges and problems. The family is universally acknowledged as the most fundamental social unit and institution. As such its state and condition is of paramount importance to the development and progress of society as a whole. IAIS Malaysia, the main convener of the Kuala Lumpur conference, has as its core, long-term agenda the active pursuit of civilisational renewal (tajdīd haḍārī) in the twenty-first century. The stabilisation of the family institution and the restoration of its health and societal dynamism following the progressive degradation of traditional family values in modern times are completely in line with the objectives of the Kuala Lumpur conference. There is an urgent need to stem the tide of degradation of traditional family values and the family institution through identification of all the factors responsible for it and by formulating policies and programmes that will address them in the most effective way. As a think-tank concerned with contemporary policy-oriented issues, particularly from the Islamic perspective, IAIS’ interest in the conference was to pursue a Islam and Civilisational Renewal ICR 3-1 00 prelims 6 20/09/2011 13:20 EDITORIAL 7 balanced approach to family issues that would place practical considerations on a sound conceptual and theoretical understanding of the issues. The following points had been among the objectives of the conference: 1. to assess the state and condition of the contemporary family institution, especially in Malaysia and Southeast Asian countries; 2. to identify the major challenges and problems, both ideological and practical, confronting family values and the family institution that have brought about their degradation and decline; 3. to help formulate national and regional policies and programmes that would address the above identified challenges and problems most effectively; 4. to learn lessons from the various experiences of Southeast Asian communities in family life in blending tradition with modernity; and 5. to submit to the relevant authorities practical recommendations on how best to deal with the numerous issues and problems impacting the