Open AccessInterpreting Islam in the Constitution: Question of Fact or of Law?
Author(s) -
Tengku Ahmad Hazri
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
islam and civilisational renewal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2041-8728
pISSN - 2041-871X
DOI - 10.52282/icr.v7i2.269
Subject(s) - constitution , legislature , federalism , law , islam , state (computer science) , political science , power (physics) , constitutional law , sociology , politics , history , physics , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
Under Malaysia’s federalism, the legislative powers of the Federation are distributed between the federal and state governments by the Federal Constitution, classified under Federal List, State List and Joint List. Thus state legislature is authorised to legislate on matters involving, among others, Islamic law. This power includes to create “offences against the precepts of Islam”.1 So two questions then arise.