Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems
This article explores the institutionalization of the Islamic governance principles of adl (justice), shufra (consultation), muhasbah (accountability), maqasid (public interest), and stewardship in Pakistan and Malaysia. A corpus of 2000 current documentary resources was compiled. The analysis reveals two different pathways. Malaysia has placed more stress on procedural formalism: compulsory consultations with published minutes and response to comments, earlier audits with more prominent follow-through, and ex-post facto reasoning (which invariably indicates constitutional preeminence) to cope with civil Sharīah overlaps. Pakistan more frequently mobilizes adl and public interest through adjudication and public-interest litigation, which produces salient precedents and access via legal-aid references, but with less routinization of consultative and stewardship protections in social and family-law arenas. Our suggested reforms include standardized consultation windows and reason-giving, cross-system standing reference procedures, maqasid-congruent public scorecards in priority sectors, and a new module we call neo-Sufi accountability.
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(1) Umbreen Akhtar
Lecturer, Department of Pakistan Studies, National University of Modern Language, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Sara Gurchani
Lecturer, Department of Pakistan Studies, National University of Modern Language, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Nadeem Tariq
Lecturer, Department of Pakistan Studies, National University of Modern Language, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Akhtar, U., Gurchani, S., & Tariq, N. (2025). Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems. Global Social Sciences Review, X(III), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).18
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CHICAGO : Akhtar, Umbreen, Sara Gurchani, and Nadeem Tariq. 2025. "Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems." Global Social Sciences Review, X (III): 203-220 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).18
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HARVARD : AKHTAR, U., GURCHANI, S. & TARIQ, N. 2025. Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 203-220.
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MHRA : Akhtar, Umbreen, Sara Gurchani, and Nadeem Tariq. 2025. "Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 203-220
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MLA : Akhtar, Umbreen, Sara Gurchani, and Nadeem Tariq. "Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems." Global Social Sciences Review, X.III (2025): 203-220 Print.
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OXFORD : Akhtar, Umbreen, Gurchani, Sara, and Tariq, Nadeem (2025), "Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems", Global Social Sciences Review, X (III), 203-220
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TURABIAN : Akhtar, Umbreen, Sara Gurchani, and Nadeem Tariq. "Islamic Approach of Good Governance in the Contemporary Age: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia's Political Systems." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. III (2025): 203-220. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-III).18