Islamic Review: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Keislaman

Strengthening the Competitiveness of Culinary MSMEs through the Digitalization of Halal Certification

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The digitalization of halal certification has become an important strategy for improving the competitiveness of culinary Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) amid increasing consumer demand for halal products and digital business transformation. This study aims to examine the role of digital halal certification in strengthening the competitiveness of culinary MSMEs in Demak Regency, Indonesia. A qualitative descriptive approach was employed, using semi-structured interviews, observations, and document analysis. The data were analyzed through data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing following the interactive analysis model. The findings reveal that digital halal certification enhances consumer trust, strengthens product credibility, simplifies certification procedures, and expands market access through more efficient and transparent digital processes. However, its implementation remains constrained by limited digital literacy, insufficient institutional assistance, and low awareness of the strategic benefits of halal certification among MSMEs. The study highlights that collaboration among government agencies, halal certification authorities, and business support institutions is essential for accelerating digital certification adoption. It concludes that digital halal certification should be viewed not merely as a regulatory requirement but as a strategic capability for improving MSME competitiveness and supporting the development of a sustainable regional halal ecosystem.

Digitalisasi sertifikasi halal menjadi strategi penting dalam meningkatkan daya saing Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah (UMKM) kuliner di tengah meningkatnya permintaan produk halal dan transformasi bisnis digital. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis peran digitalisasi sertifikasi halal dalam memperkuat daya saing UMKM kuliner di Kabupaten Demak. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif melalui wawancara semi-terstruktur, observasi, dan analisis dokumen. Data dianalisis menggunakan model analisis interaktif melalui kondensasi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa digitalisasi sertifikasi halal meningkatkan kepercayaan konsumen, memperkuat kredibilitas produk, menyederhanakan proses sertifikasi, serta memperluas akses pasar melalui proses yang lebih efisien dan transparan. Namun, implementasinya masih menghadapi kendala berupa rendahnya literasi digital, terbatasnya pendampingan kelembagaan, dan minimnya pemahaman pelaku UMKM mengenai manfaat strategis sertifikasi halal. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa digitalisasi sertifikasi halal tidak hanya berfungsi sebagai pemenuhan regulasi, tetapi juga sebagai kapabilitas strategis untuk meningkatkan daya saing UMKM serta mendukung pengembangan ekosistem halal daerah yang berkelanjutan.

Beyond Transmission: T-CAIM Framework for Navigating Religious Authority and AI Integration in Pesantren Education

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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are fundamentally vibrating worldviews and reshaping the epistemological landscape of global education, raising urgent questions about the future of tradition-based institutions. This article critically examines the intersections between AI-driven educational transformation and the enduring pedagogical and religious authority structures of Pesantren, Indonesia’s indigenous Islamic boarding schools. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of field, capital, and habitus; Habermas’s communicative action theory; and the concept of epistemic authority in Islamic scholarship, this paper argues that Pesantren face a dual challenge: preserving the integrity of knowledge transmission (sanad) and spiritual formation (Tarbiyah) central to their identity, while simultaneously engaging with AI tools that threaten to disintermediate the Kyai–santri relationship and algorithmicise religious guidance. Through a systematic critical literature review of 47 peer-reviewed studies (2019–2025) and critical discourse analysis of institutional policy documents, this article identifies three key tensions: (1) the contestation between algorithmic knowledge and embodied scholarly authority; (2) the risks and opportunities of AI-mediated religious consultation; and (3) the emerging typologies of AI adoption across salaf and khalaf Pesantren. The article introduces Beyond Transmission as its central theoretical contribution, a paradigm shift that reconceptualises Islamic education from mere knowledge transmission to transformative human formation in the AI era, and proposes the Tarbiyah-Centred AI Integration Model (T-CAIM) as an operationalised normative framework for Pesantren AI governance.

Barzanji Tradition as a Media for Internalizing Islamic Values in Religious Life and Islamic Education

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This study was motivated by the perception that the Barzanji tradition is merely a routine religious activity, while its role in internalizing Islamic educational values has not received adequate attention. This study aims to examine the internalization of Islamic educational values within the Barzanji tradition and to explore how these values manifest in the religious life of the community. A qualitative approach with a field study design was used in this research. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and documentation. Data analysis followed the Miles and Huberman model, which includes data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Data validity was ensured through source triangulation. The research findings indicate that the Barzanji tradition embodies the fundamental values of Islamic education, namely faith (akidah), worship (ibadah), and moral conduct (akhlak). These values are not only conveyed through the recitation of the Barzanji text but are also internalized through religious practices, social interactions, and customs shaped by this tradition. The process of internalization takes place in three stages: value transformation, value transaction, and trans-internalization. Value transformation occurs through the transmission and understanding of Islamic teachings; value transaction develops through interaction and participation in the Barzanji tradition; while trans-internalization is reflected in the formation of attitudes, religious consciousness, and moral behavior in daily life. Thus, the Barzanji tradition functions not merely as a religious ritual, but as a culturally embedded means of internalizing Islamic educational values and strengthening religious life and social bonds within the community.

Pertimbangan Hukum Hakim dalam Penetapan Perkawinan Beda Agama: Analisis Fenomenologi dan Maqashid Syari’ah atas Putusan Nomor 916/Pdt.P/2022/PN.Sby

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Court rulings approving interfaith marriages continue to spark juridical and religious debate in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the judicial reasoning and legal considerations in Decision Number 916/Pdt.P/2022/PN.Sby through the combined analytical lenses of Alfred Schutz's phenomenology and Maqashid Shariah. Using a qualitative normative-juridical approach based on document study of court decision transcripts, the findings reveal that through Schutz's phenomenological lens, the judge's reasoning was driven by an "in order to motive" to provide civil legal certainty and safeguard the applicants' constitutional rights, as well as a "because motive" grounded in a mature personal relationship, social context, and parental consent. However, viewed from Maqashid Shariah (Hifz al-Din and Hifz al-Nasl), the ruling predominantly prioritizes administrative procedures and individual human rights while overlooking long-term implications for family religious preservation, guardianship, and the civil status of offspring. This study concludes that accommodating civil rights via judicial discretion creates legal protection for applicants yet leaves gaps regarding Islamic Shariah protections.

Pendidikan Digital Berbasis Ta’dib: Rekonstruksi Relasi Pendidikan, Adab, dan Teknologi dalam Pemikiran Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

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This study aims to formulate the construction of a ta’dib-based digital education paradigm from the perspective of Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas. The study is grounded in the challenges of digital education, which are not only related to the acceleration of information access and the use of learning technologies, but also to misinformation, the weakening of epistemic authority, declining academic integrity, and the crisis of adab in the use of technology. This research employs a qualitative approach with a library research design. The data were obtained from Al-Attas’s works and scholarly literature relevant to ta’dib, Islamic education, digital literacy, and technological ethics. The data were analyzed using content analysis with a descriptive-analytical approach. The findings show that ta’dib serves as the philosophical foundation of Islamic education by integrating knowledge, adab, and action in shaping civilized human beings. In the context of digital education, ta’dib functions as a normative-philosophical framework for reorganizing the relationship between human beings, knowledge, and technology. This paradigm positions technology as a wasilah, not a ghayah, and emphasizes adab-based digital literacy, the strengthening of epistemic authority, value-based learning, holistic assessment, and ethical technology governance. Thus, a ta’dib-based digital education paradigm can serve as an integrative framework for Islamic education that remains adaptive to technological development without losing its value orientation, adab, and educational objectives.

Determinan Minat Generasi Milenial dalam Berinvestasi pada Tabungan Emas Digital Syariah di Kalimantan Timur

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Sharia digital gold investment offers convenient access to investment opportunities, but prospective investors’ interest may depend not only on product knowledge and technological ease but also on trust in service providers. This study examines the relationships of sharia investment knowledge, trust, and perceived ease of use with investment interest in sharia digital gold among millennials in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Using a quantitative approach, the study collected questionnaire data from 200 respondents selected through purposive sampling. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in SmartPLS 3 with 5,000 bootstrap resamples. The results show that sharia investment knowledge (β = 0.400), trust (β = 0.526), and perceived ease of use (β = 0.454) are each positively and significantly associated with investment interest (p < 0.001). The model explains 70.5% of the variance in investment interest (R² = 0.705), with trust having the largest path coefficient. These findings highlight the relevance of trust in service providers alongside product knowledge and technological ease. However, the cross-sectional design and non-probability sampling limit generalizability and do not support causal conclusions.

Very Low Calorie Diet in Islamic Perspective: A Study of Effectiveness, Safety, and Sustainability in Obesity Management

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The high prevalence of obesity and the growing trend toward rapid weight loss highlight the need for effective and strategic approaches to obesity management. As a popular dietary approach, the Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) promotes weight loss through significant energy restriction. This study aims to analyze VLCD from an Islamic perspective. A qualitative approach based on library research was employed through a review of nutritional, dietary, and Islamic studies literature. The literature search was conducted using PubMed, Frontiers, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar databases with the keywords Very Low Calorie Diet, VLCD for Obesity, Balanced Diet, and Halal and Tayyib Diet within a 10-year period (2016–2026). The literature was analyzed descriptively through data reduction, data presentation, content analysis, and conclusion drawing to assess the compatibility of VLCD with three Islamic principles: balance, the prohibition of israf, and the preservation of life. The findings indicate that VLCD, when administered under professional supervision and according to specific medical criteria, can be effective, safe, and sustainable in obesity management. These findings suggest that calorie-restricted diets are consistent with the principles of balance (wasatiyah), avoidance of excess (israf), and preservation of life (hifz al-nafs), indicating that weight loss outcomes alone should not serve as the sole basis for determining the appropriateness of an intervention. This review recommends VLCD, when applied according to appropriate medical criteria and under professional supervision, as an intervention that can provide effective outcomes in patients with obesity without compromising physiological needs, health maintenance, and sustainable weight management.

Recontextualizing Fatherhood in the Digital Age: Child Protection, Digital Parenting, and Maqasid al-Shariah in Addressing LGBT-Related Online Content

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This study aims to recontextualize the role of fathers in modern parenting concepts to protect children’s identities in the digital age. Using a socio-legal approach with an exploratory case study design that integrates a juridical-normative analysis with micro-scale empirical field data from 31 Generation Z respondents, the analysis focused on the influence of parental caregiving variables on father involvement in face-to-face communication to prevent the risk of exposure to LGBT issues on the internet. The research results reveal an anomaly in parenting, evidenced by the physical presence of fathers in the domestic sphere, accounting for 76.13% of time, yet this presence is passive and has not significantly contributed to the protection of children’s digital identities. This is evidenced by children’s low level of knowledge regarding sensitive issues such as LGBT (54.84%) and the scarcity of protective face-to-face communication (60.65%). An analysis using the maqasid al-shariah theory confirms that modern parenting demands a transformation of the father’s role from merely a breadwinner to an egalitarian, collaborative partnership with the mother (co-parenting) in realizing hifz al-nasl and hifz al-din. A comprehensive recontextualizing of responsibilities based on hifz al-nasl and hifz al-din serves as a safeguard to protect children amidst value disorientation in the digital space.

Contemporary Scientific Epistemological Problems and Maqāṣid al-Syarīʿah: Toward a Teleological Framework for Scientific Inquiry

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The development of modern science has produced significant advances in knowledge and technology, yet it has also generated epistemological concerns regarding the relationship between facts, values, and the purposes of scientific knowledge. Scientific paradigms emphasizing objectivity and empirical verification often separate descriptive and normative dimensions, leaving the purposes and ethical implications of science beyond scientific methodology. This study aims to explain the role of maqāṣid al-syarīʿah as a meta-methodological framework that complements scientific methodology with normative and teleological orientations. Employing library research with a qualitative approach from the perspective of the philosophy of science, the study analyzes relevant primary and secondary sources on scientific epistemology, philosophy of science, and maqāṣid al-sharīʿah. The findings indicate that maqāṣid al-syarīʿah functions as an orientative, analytical, and evaluative framework without replacing empirical and rational procedures. It guides research priorities toward public welfare, informs the interpretation of data through justice and social responsibility, and provides normative criteria through maṣlaḥah and mafsadah. Thus, maqāṣid al-syarīʿah offers a teleological framework for scientific inquiry that integrates facts, values, and purposes.