Research method is one of the most important things that can determine an outcome of a research. However, the usage of current methods that exist might cause differences or inaccuracy in getting desired results or outcome. This article is written to inspect the method of research based on Islam by going through the structure that can be found in the fatwa processes This research has two main objective which is to identify the method of research conducted based on fatwa followed by the analysis of several views from mufti regarding the efficiency and suitability on the application of fatwa process in Islamic based research. This study is a study of qualitative method by implementing and conducting structured interviews towards academic experts and some of the mufti in Malaysia. The acquired study indicates there are four methods contained in the appropriate fatwa process expressed in the methods of inquiry. Four of these methods are al-taswir al-takyif, al-ahkam and al-issuing fatwas '. The results of this study also found that, the methods contained in this fatwa based process can also be applied in methods of modern research. Thus, one of the construction about the method of inquiry based process need to be realized based on fatwa process in order to produce a study desired in accordance with Islam and Muslims.
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