Inaugural Issue

Reassessing Institutional Zakāt in Sri Lanka: Jurisprudential Approaches to Collection, Distribution and Investment

Mohamed Jiffry Mohamed Arafath Careem

This paper evaluates the practice of Zakāt in Sri Lanka, with particular emphasis on the divergent juristic approaches adopted in addressing Zakāt-related issues. Although Zakāt, one of Islam's foremost social finance instruments, has been institutionalized...

From Toleration to Integration: Lessons from Malaysian Frameworks for Effective Interfaith Dialogue in Sri Lanka

Mohamed Mihlar Abdul Muthaliff

This article examines how Sri Lanka can transform its existing, fragmented interfaith dialogue initiatives into effective, state-backed mechanisms capable of transitioning the nation's volatile socio-religious landscape from passive toleration to active civic...

Reconsidering Professional Values in Muslim School Education: A Qualitative Needs Analysis Informed by Al-Ghazali’s Educational Thought in Sri Lanka

Jalaldeen Jemeela · Dawood Al Hidabi

This study examines the need for an Islamic Professional Values Framework for the teaching profession in Muslim schools in Sri Lanka through the lens of Imam al-Ghazali's educational philosophy. Despite the central role of Islamic values in Muslim education...

Beyond Communal Coexistence: A Few Critical Reflections on Buddhist-Muslim Civilizational Dialogue

Mohamed Ashath, Mohamed Fouz Mohamed Zacky

Contemporary Buddhist-Muslim relations are often shaped by ethno-religious nationalism, selective readings of history, Islamophobia, misinformation, and narratives of civilizational conflict. This study proposes a civilizational-dialogue paradigm as an...

Zakāt as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation and Income Distribution

Rev. Wijitapure Wimalaratana

Persistent global poverty and widening income inequalities highlight the limits of conventional market-driven redistribution models. Within Islamic social finance, Zakāt functions as an institutional mechanism designed to correct systemic economic failures...

Reconciling Gender Equality and Muslim Family Law in Sri Lanka: A Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah Approach to the MMDA

Mohamed Mahroof Ali Abdullah · Mohamed Sulthan Ismiya Begum · Azizah Mohd · Norliah Ibrahim

Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution guarantees equality before the law and nondiscrimination on the ground of sex, and the country ratified CEDAW without reservation in 1981. Yet Article 16(1) of the Constitution shields all existing written and unwritten law...

Financing Qarḍ al-Ḥasan Scholarship Schemes through Zakāt: A Contemporary Juristic Viewpoint

Mohamed Bishrul Rifath

This viewpoint considers whether zakāt may fund a qarḍ al-ḥasan scholarship scheme in which repayments are recycled for future beneficiaries. The principal juristic difficulty concerns the compatibility of a repayable loan with tamlīk, the transfer of...

GUEST EDITORIAL MESSAGE

Prof. Dr. Ameer Ali

EDITORIAL NOTE

Prof. Dr. S.M.M. Mazahir

Zakat in Practice: A Review of Its Contemporary Relevance to Muslim Life in Sri Lanka

Mohamed Jabir Mohamed Farij