relation: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/50666/
title: Commanding good and prohibiting evil in contemporary Islam cases from Britain, Nigeria, and Southeast Asia
creator: Zacharias P. Pieri, -
creator: Mark Woodward, -
creator: Mariani Yahya, -
creator: Ibrahim Haruna Hassan, -
creator: Inayah Rohmaniyah, -
subject: Islam
subject: Ilmu Syariah
description: This paper examines the concept of (public) sin as well as efforts to  counteract sin from the perspective of Islam. The understanding that hisba, the  prohibition of vice and enjoining of virtues, are a responsibility of both the  state and the community is common in historical and contemporary Muslim  societies. Where the state cannot or does not provide means for countering  (public) sin, the perception for some Muslims is that the responsibility on the  community and individuals to do so increases. Based on ethnographic research  in Britain, Nigeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, the paper highlights  examples of how sin has been defined amongst Muslim communities as well  as the methods and rationales given to justify the forbidding of sin as a  collective and communal public obligation. As the world becomes more integrated, there is growing concern amongst Muslim communities that sin is  becoming the norm, leading society to degeneracy, that people who would not  have otherwise sinned are influenced to do so. Common features in forbidding sin  across Muslim communities have appeared, often focusing on what are seen as  moral issues such as dress codes, music, gambling, alcohol, smoking, and the  mixing of men and women in public. The forbidding of sin has resulted in  attempts to introduce “Shari’a Zones” in some predominantly Muslim areas of  London, whilst in Indonesia, this has given rise to the Islamic Defenders Front and  in some Northern Nigerian states to the reintroduction of the criminal codes of the  Shari’a.
date: 2014
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/50666/1/Commanding%20good%20and%20prohibiting%20evil%20in%20contemporary%20Islam%20cases%20from%20Britain%2C%20Nigeria%2C%20and%20Southeast%20Asia.pdf
identifier:   Zacharias P. Pieri, - and Mark Woodward, - and Mariani Yahya, - and Ibrahim Haruna Hassan, - and Inayah Rohmaniyah, -  (2014) Commanding good and prohibiting evil in contemporary Islam cases from Britain, Nigeria, and Southeast Asia.  ResearchGate (8).  pp. 37-55.      
relation: http://10.1007/s11562-013-0256-9