Study of Islamic Law in the University Curriculum

Abstract

This study discusses the role of Islamic law in Indonesia's national legal education system by highlighting its normative, philosophical, and sociological position. Islamic law has a strategic position because historical Sharia values have lived in Indonesian society and is constitutionally recognized through various regulations, especially in family law and sharia economics. In the context of legal education, Islamic law serves as a source of ethics and morals that reinforces the orientation towards substantive justice in the formation of law graduates. This study shows that the integration of Islamic law into the legal education curriculum is carried out through three main models: complementary, integrative, and transformational. However, various challenges such as dualism of paradigms, limited literature, and a lack of multidisciplinary lecturers still pose obstacles to implementation. With a normative-empirical approach, this paper emphasizes that the integration of Islamic law is not only an academic necessity, but also part of the development of a national legal character that is in accordance with Pancasila and the nation's identity