Political Islam: The Alchemy of Politics, Theology & Culture
This twelve-week workshop is a crucial step towards understanding the contemporary language of political Islam by exploring its historical foundations across 1400 years of theological conflict. The workshop looks into the how the Muslim worldview…
Kindness to Parents: A Driver for Excellence?
Fatima Hamdulay
How do we engender excellence? Malcolm Gladwell popularised the notion of a “Tipping Point” – little things that make a big difference and move to a point where a social phenomenon gains traction that is virus-like – it becomes deeply infectious…
State Actor Dynamics in Brunei’s Healthcare Policies
Syazana Fauzi
This study seeks to ascertain the state actor dynamics in Brunei’s healthcare policies from the perspectives of an Islamic system of governance, by first identifying the state actors, or institutions, involved in influencing, formulating…
Muslim State in a World of Nation-State
Nassef Managbilang Adiong
Muslim views on the polity represent the paradigmatic understandings of how Muslims relate citizenry, authority, territoriality, and sovereignty to the overarching influence of the Western nation-state system. For instance, the meaning of citizenry in the…
‘Darkness to Light’ in Islamic Corporate Governance
Iznan Tarip
There are emerging works on the dark side of organisation, looking at the dark out-side (e.g. political instability, multi-national corrupt syndicates), and in-side (e.g. workplace violence, nepotism). The ‘darkness’ not only involves generalised corrupting mechanisms…
Consultation (Istishārah) in Prophet Muhammadﷺ’s Administration and Guidance for Solving Today’s Problems
Serdar Demirel
The 21st century began with major crises for the Muslim World. The invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and its following events led to the death and immigration of millions of individuals, as well as major demographic shifts within the countries involved…
Thought Papers
Keep up with the latest ideas, research, analysis, or interpretations in Islamic Governance and its derivatives, updated regularly by the Institute of Policy Studies, UBD.
Wise Agents & Organisational Moral Learning
Iznan Tarip
The processes of strategic change, undertaken from time to time by organisations so as to maintain its functional relevance and effectiveness, are often conflict-ridden. This is in large part due to the nature of the…
Manoeuvring Power Dynamics: The Brunei Constitution 1959
Majdey Zawawi
The Brunei Report of 1904 mentions of a letter that Sultan Hashim tried to address to the Ottoman Sultan Hamid II expressing Brunei’s willingness to surrender the Sultanate to Turkey or more precisely, to the Ottoman Caliphate. The letter was intercepted by British Agents…
Silk and Steel: Sultanah Safiatuddin Syah of Aceh dar al-Salam
Sher Banu Khan
What can modern Muslims learn from Sultanah Safiatuddin Syah of Aceh dar al-Salam in the seventeenth century about conflict-resolution and peace-making? Drawing evidences from the Sultanah’s reign (1641-75), this paper delineates…
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…
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Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah: Fulfilling Maqasid al-Shari’ah
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Fulfilling the requirements of the Maqasid al-Shari’ah is a duty not all leaders have been able to carry out. Throughout history, there are many examples of leaders and nations who have failed to provide for their own people. Thus, for His Majesty to achieve this, it is indeed no small feat. For fulfilling the requirements of the Maqasid al-Shari’ah, His Majesty is an exemplary Muslim leader in this modern time. This book provides examples of how those Maqasids were fulfilled.
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