The emergence of Sisters in Islam (SIS) in Malaysia begins with their dissatisfaction of the implementation of certain new Islamic Family Law that had been legislated in 1984. In 1987, a group of women were not satisfied with certain law of the new Islamic Law when it was enforced in Shariah courts. They claimed that some existing laws which are implemented in the Shariah court in Malaysia are biased and discriminatory against Muslim women. The members of the group aim to reinterpret the texts of Islam because they believe that their proposed interpretations should be able to solve problems arising in society, especially those related to what they claim as gender inequality and human rights. Then, they proposed the method of a model of Qur’anic hermeneutics. This article found that the method of problem solving through a model of Qur’anic hermeneutics used by SIS does not fulfil the requirements of acceptable method for Qur’anic interpretation from an Islamic perspective.
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