Thought Paper
The Journal invites interested individuals from any field to share their thoughts and initial ideas from their research, analysis, interpretation of a particular topic. Accepted papers will be hosted by The Journals platforms to establish intellectual ownership and acknowledge authorship.
The Madīnian Polity: Visions of Islamic Governance
Islamic Governance is a concept founded upon a 1400-year-old civilisation with extensive experience in rulership, its challenges and organisation, across different nations and cultures. Islam bequeathed to the world a rich intellectual heritage.
ICT Differences in Islamic Education
Abdal-Hakim Hardaker
The use of digital learning approaches has dramatically enhanced the ability to learn new ideas and skills faster and often more collaboratively, resulting in the growing appetite of the new generations to seek knowledge.
Cultural Factors for Cohesive Governance
Amin Abdul Aziz
The concept of Islamic Governance is an ideational framework consisting of rules, values and notions guiding all organised activities. Indeed, the concept permeates every level of human society: from the political or state level, to the…
Ascendency of China and Managing Possibility of Conflicts with Muslim Nations
Abdul Halim Abdul Karim
This paper is a preliminary discussion on the ascendancy of China, focusing on managing and avoiding conflicts with Muslim countries. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced an ambitious foreign policy and economic initiative; calling for the construction of a new Silk…
Identifying Roles and Protecting Rights
Amin Abdul Aziz
An Islamic system of governance is essentially a series of interrelated processes pertaining to the act of governing in an Islamic manner, and where the interrelations between those processes are established via the common expectations of its actors, and all of which subsist within an…
Identifying Tomorrow: Protecting The Rights Of Our Future Generation
Huraini Hurairah
Major development and modernisation theory suggests that developing countries can modernise by undergoing westernisation and secularisation. Economics have come to dominate approaches to development, …
HART Library Book Acquisitions
Keep up with the latest additions to the centre of Islamic Governance knowledge, updated monthly by the Institute of Policy Studies, UBD.
The Media and the Law: a Brunei Experience
Zabaidah Haji Kamaludin
When Brunei Darussalam first presented its country report as a signatory country on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Geneva in October 2003, a comment was made by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that …
Advice to a Nation
Dina Aliuddin
This paper examines the political thought of Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddien (also known as Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Waddien III) through his Syair Nasihat or Ode of Advice.
Brunei’s First Islamic Governance Library Launched
IPS opened the HART Islamic Governance Library in an effort to become an Islamic Governance resource centre that will contribute to existing students’ research. It houses around 3,000 books and journals which cover Quran, Sunnah & Seerah, Hadīth…
Governance in a Contemporary Islamic Negara
Amin Abdul Aziz
Like all great truths, the concept of Islamic Governance is simple. It transcends time and place, its ideational structures consistent and enduring, and its values universal. This universality…
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Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom:
The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699
Sher Banu A. L. Khan
In Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom, Sher Banu A. L. Khan provides a fresh perspective on the women who ruled in succession in Aceh for half the seventeenth century. Khan draws fresh evidence about the lives and reigns of the sultanahs from contemporary indigenous texts and the archives of the Dutch East India Company.
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