Background: Climate mobility increasingly affects Muslim families by disrupting marriage stability, child protection, inheritance, maintenance obligations, and access to justice. Existing studies primarily address climate mobility from environmental or human rights perspectives, while a comprehensive Islamic family law framework grounded in maqāṣid al-sharīʿah remains underdeveloped. This study proposes a Maqāṣid-Based Climate Family Resilience (MCFR) Model through comparative analysis of Egypt, Indonesia, and Spain.
Methods: This study employs a qualitative comparative socio-legal approach integrating doctrinal legal analysis, comparative Islamic family law, policy analysis, and documentary research. The analytical framework combines maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, Climate Justice Theory, Family Resilience Theory, and Legal Pluralism Theory.
Results: The findings indicate that climate mobility generates similar legal and social challenges across the three jurisdictions despite differing legal traditions. The MCFR Model integrates the five objectives of maqāṣid al-sharīʿah with climate justice, adaptive family governance, legal pluralism, and institutional collaboration to strengthen Muslim family resilience.
Discussion: The proposed model extends Islamic family law scholarship by providing a normative and adaptive framework that harmonizes religious principles with climate-responsive legal governance while promoting legal certainty, family welfare, and social justice.
Conclusion: Strengthening Muslim family resilience requires an integrated Islamic legal framework capable of addressing climate-induced family vulnerabilities. The MCFR Model offers a practical and theoretically grounded approach for climate-responsive family law reform in diverse legal systems.
Novelty: This study introduces the MCFR Model as an original comparative socio-legal framework linking maqāṣid al-sharīʿah, climate mobility, family resilience, and legal pluralism within contemporary Islamic family law.
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