SYLLABUS
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (IPIEF)
FACULTY ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA
Name of Course : Fiqh for Economics Credit Value : 3 (three)
Semester : 1 (one)
Instructor : Zaini Muchlis., Lc., MIRKH
INTRODUCTION
Fiqh For Economics is a compulsory subject for both regular and international economics courses. This course has 2 credits, with the course code IPE 19111. This course was designed to provide knowledge of the methods of interpretation to understand legal texts (ayat al ahkam) of the Holy Qur’an. The discussion will be focused on various forms of textual expressions (al- Alfaz), commands and prohibition (al awamir wa al nawahi), and textual implications (al- dalalah), conflicts of evidences (Ta‘aruÌ), abrogation (Naskh), and Maqasid al-Shari‘ah. The theoretical guidelines and the economic of the Maxims of Fiqh (Qawa‘id al-Fiqhiyah) will also be covered. This course is taken for all students of economics in Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta as a basis for their knowledge in taking courses at this university.
The topic of Islamic Jurisprudence is very broad and also very interesting to discuss, so in this course students are assigned to read the material, summarize it in each section for class discussion material, practice exercises, and group assignments. At each meeting will be preceded by short speech from the lecturer as an introduction to each topic, then the discussion / question and answer, and ends with the delivery of an overview by the lecturer and the assignment of material review for the next meeting, so that students get a common thread from the material delivered.
Course Objectives
The learning objectives of the Islamic Jurisprudence course are:
1. Increase student knowledge about the basic priciples of Islamic law in science.
2. Increasing students' scientific knowledge about the Islamic values in all aspects of life.
3. Increase students' knowledge of the true teachings of Islam in accordance with the Al- Quran and Al-hadith.
4. Students can understand the problems in society, so they can provide solutions to every problem, especially those related to creed and worship in the teachings of Islam.
5. Encouraging students to be able to take part in creating the true Islamic community.
GLOSSARY
* Usul is the plural form of the word Ashl لصأ which means the principal / source or something that is the basis for others.
* Fiqh in terminology means understand / to understand. Taken from the words of the Prophet SAW
نيدلا ىف ههقفي اريخ هب الله دري نم
Whoever Allah wants will get wisdom, surely Allah will give him an understanding of religion.
(Narrated by Bukhari).
* Ushul fiqh in epistemology: Knowledge of the rules that lead to the effort to formulate the Shariah law 'from its detailed propositions. (In another definition: the rules that explain the ways of issuing the laws from their arguments).
* Quran is the word of Allah (kalamu Allah) as revealed to his prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
* Qur'an is the first and primary source of Islamic law, it is an authentic and authoritative source.
* Sunnah/ Hadits is derived from the word “Sanan”, which is Arabic for: a road or a path.
* The opposed of Sunnah is bid`ah (Innovation in religion). The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said : “Follow my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the righteous Caliphs after me.”
* The scholar of ushul fiqh define Sunnah as “whatever the Prophet was reported to have said, did, or permitted others to do.”
* Ijma' is the agreement of the mujtahids from the Muslims after the death of the Prophet Muhammad on matters relating to a syariah law.
* Qiyas is comparing a cases that there is no legal text with a case that has a legal text because the similarity in their legal illat (cause).
* Maslahah is taking advantage and rejecting badness in order to maintain the objectives of sharia'.
REFERENCE
1. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Princilpes of Islamic Jurisprudence, Petaling Jaya : Pelanduk Publication, 1989
2. Mahmasani S. (translated) by F.J. Ziadah, Falsafah al Tashi Fi al Islam, The Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam, Deiden : E.J. Brill, 1961
3. Wahbah Zuhaili, Usul Al-Fiqh (Arabic) First Edition, Dar al-Fikr, Demascus, Syria, 1986 4. Ruwas Qal’ah Ji, Mabahith Fi al-Iqtisad al-Islami min Usulihi al-Fiqhiyah, Dar al-Nafais, Berut
5. Ahmad Safiyu al-Din ‘Awad Usul ilm al-Iqtisad al-Islami li al-Iqtisad al Fardi, Maktabah al-Rashad, Riyadh 1981.
6. Rif’at al-Iwadi, Al-Iqtisad al-Islami, Masadiruhu fi al-fiqh al am, Maktabah al-Talib al- Jami’I Mecca, 1986, Samsuri, Usul al-Fiqh II Econ 3551, 2003 student’s structural notes
