The Historical Aspect on the Establishment of the Kelantan Syariah Court

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to reveal to the Islam community especially to those who are involved with Syariah Court for them to understand the objective, function and daily task run by the Syariah Court in Kelantan to solve any problems that is brought to them especially in family matters. Other than that, this survey is to emphasize on the aspect of the early establishment of Kelantan Syariah Court before and after independence and also their jurisdiction and trial procedures in the Syariah Court. In this aspect, the writer has used the library method in referring books related to Islamic law and also for further references. It clearly indicates that the law in Syariah Court solely follows the Hukum Syara' which is based from ulama' and law experts in Kelantan. As such to understand the law system in Syariah Court, we must first get to know the history as the main factor, which determines the law system that we have today.