Mapping Judicial Reasoning in Marriage Dispensation Based on Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah for AI-Supported e-Court Development at Ketapang Religious Court
Abstract
Adjudicating marriage dispensation applications requires judicial reasoning that integrates child protection, the circumstances of prospective spouses, and the objectives of Islamic law (Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah) within the electronic court system. This study aims to map patterns of judicial reasoning based on five dimensions of Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah and to formulate the mapping results as a basis for developing artificial intelligence (AI) support within e-Court. This empirical legal research employs a qualitative design and was conducted at Ketapang Religious Court through interviews and observations involving 35 informants, document analysis of marriage dispensation court orders issued from 2019 to 2023, analysis of legal materials, and a text-mining-based AI model simulation. The 2019–2023 documents were processed through text search, filtering, and classification of legal reasoning, resulting in an analytical corpus of 75 court orders. Contextual review linked passages of judicial reasoning to dominant categories, supporting dimensions, legal context, and classification rationales. The findings show that preservation of lineage (hifz al-nasl) was the most frequently identified dominant category, followed by preservation of life (hifz al-nafs), preservation of wealth (hifz al-māl), preservation of religion (hifz al-dīn), and preservation of intellect (hifz al-ʿaql). The relationships among these dimensions demonstrate the multidimensional character of judicial reasoning. The simulation classified legal reasoning and presented relationships among categories to support the retrieval of relevant information. These findings provide a basis for developing an information support system within e-Court that incorporates source traceability, human verification, audit trails, data governance, and judicial authority.
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