The contemporary world is witnessing rapid transformations driven by the evolution of the digital knowledge economy, a defining feature of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which has fundamentally reshaped patterns of knowledge production and dissemination while extending its impact across diverse scientific fields through big data and artificial intelligence technologies.
Amidst these developments, Islamic juristic reasoning (ijtihad) faces profound methodological challenges as contemporary issues become increasingly linked to intelligent systems and automated decision-making, particularly in domains such as fatwa issuance, Islamic finance, and institutional governance, thereby necessitating the revitalization of ijtihad-based tools in alignment with these transformations, with Maqasid Shariah serving as a comprehensive methodological framework that regulates the process of ijtihad towards the realization of benefits and prevention of harms while preserving balance within an evolving digital context.
In response, the Department of Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh at the AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, is organizing the 7th International Conference on Islamic Jurisprudence 2026 to serve as a leading academic platform for interdisciplinary dialogue, integrating technological knowledge with the Islamic normative framework, and advancing rigorous juristic discourse through renewed ijtihad grounded in a Tawhidic Epistemology towards formulating well-grounded Shariah-based solutions for contemporary life.