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Background: Contemporary Muslim families face increasingly complex challenges due to changing gender roles, dual-income households, and shifting parental responsibilities. While Islamic family law provides normative guidance for family life, limited scholarship has systematically integrated Islamic legal principles, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into a coherent framework for contemporary parenting. This study addresses this gap by examining Flexi-Parenting as a contextual approach to shared parental responsibilities grounded in Shariah.

Methods: This study employs qualitative normative legal research using doctrinal and conceptual approaches. Primary sources include the Qur’an, Sunnah, classical and contemporary Islamic legal literature, and relevant family law regulations, while secondary sources comprise scholarly works on parenting, family resilience, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, and SDGs. Data were analyzed through doctrinal interpretation and qualitative content analysis.

Results: The analysis demonstrates that Flexi-Parenting is consistent with the Islamic principles of ta‘āwun (mutual cooperation), ‘adl (justice), mas’ūliyyah (shared responsibility), and maṣlaḥah (public welfare). The framework supports a contextual distribution of parental responsibilities according to family circumstances while preserving Islamic legal objectives and contributing conceptually to SDG 3, SDG 5, and SDG 16.

Discussion: The findings indicate that Islamic family law possesses interpretive flexibility to accommodate contemporary parenting arrangements without compromising its normative foundations. Integrating maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah with parenting discourse strengthens family resilience and sustainable family development.

Conclusion: Flexi-Parenting provides a contextual Shariah-based framework that promotes balanced parental involvement, family well-being, and the practical relevance of Islamic family law in addressing contemporary social change.

Novelty: This study develops an integrated doctrinal framework that systematically connects Islamic family law, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, contextual parental role-sharing, and selected SDGs through the concept of Flexi-Parenting.

Background: Divorce in contemporary Islamic family law involves not only marital dissolution but also challenges concerning women's economic security, recognition of marital contributions, and children's welfare. Existing studies often examine national reforms separately and provide limited explanation of how Islamic family law transforms formal rights into substantive justice.

Objective: This study aims to analyze post-divorce family protection reforms in Indonesia, Morocco, and Tunisia and develop a maqāṣid-based framework for strengthening gender justice and sustainable family governance.

Methods: Using a qualitative doctrinal and comparative legal approach, this research examines statutory regulations, judicial practices, and Islamic family law reforms in the three jurisdictions. The analysis applies gender justice and maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, particularly ḥifẓ al-māl, ḥifẓ al-‘ird, ḥifẓ al-nasl, and maṣlaḥah.

Results: The findings identify three reform trajectories: Indonesia emphasizes judicial contextualization through joint marital property, post-divorce maintenance, mutʿah, and child support; Morocco advances legislative reform through the Mudawwanah al-Usrah; while Tunisia applies a stronger state-centered protection model. The study proposes the Maqāṣid-Based Post-Divorce Family Protection (MPFP) Model consisting of economic protection, recognition of marital contribution, child-centered protection, judicial accessibility, and sustainable family welfare.

Conclusion: Gender justice and maqāṣid al-sharīʿah provide complementary foundations for transforming Islamic family law toward substantive post-divorce justice.

Novelty: The MPFP Model offers a comparative governance framework integrating legal reform, social welfare, and institutional protection for women and children after divorce.