This study is designed to explore the possibility and viability of critical pedagogy in Muslim higher education. Critical pedagogy is an educational approach that highlights democracy, social justice, empowerment, social responsibility, countering hegemony etc. The central concern of this study is to explore how these aspects can be implemented to improve the Muslim higher education system. This was done by drawing from explanations and examples of how critical pedagogy has been implemented in the west. The study employed philosophical method of conceptual analysis and explorative approach to answer the research questions raised. An understanding was developed on the process of implementing critical pedagogy in a classroom context and also some of the challenges and concerns it entails. To contextualize the significance of critical pedagogy in Muslim education context, the study has discussed in general about the problems of Islamic education system and how critical pedagogical aspects can be used to overcome them. Since critical pedagogy is very context specific, this study used the particular context of social psychology course offered at IIUM to demonstrate with examples how a course can be taught from a critical pedagogical perspective in the Muslim higher education context. It provides detailed examples on how certain topics in the course can be taught to develop students’ critical consciousness, a sense of social responsibility and the motivation to act upon issues. It demonstrates how students can be taught to identify and resist the power politics of the dominant groups, counter hegemonic ideologies, and defend themselves and their community against these oppressive forces. It is hoped that providing such examples and detailed analysis can contribute to realizing a critical pedagogical classroom setting in the Muslim higher education context.

The term of Murabaha (murabahah), and gold investment are among the most important topics nowadays due to the massive dealing with them among many people in the society. Therefore, this research is an attempt to merge these two issues into one transaction which is called “Gold Murabahah”. The concepts of both Murabahah and Goldand their applications in by Indonesian Government Islamic Bank have been given special attention to fiqh issues related to the application and its provisions, to determine wheter it is syari’ah compliant or not. To achieve the objectives of this research, the methodologies based on the inductive approach and analytical exploration of texts and researches related to the topic to gather the views of Muslim scholars, researchers, and their evidence and arguments on the matter. This is followed by analysis, discussion and highligh of the predominant opinion. Moreover, the field study that was conducted in the Government Indonesian Islamic Bank was used to link between the theoretical and the practical side. In summary,the application ofGold Murabahah in The Indonesian Government Islamic Bank, needs to be revised, to the make gold as Usul Murabaha. It has been concluded that ribawi item requires uniformity and trading at the exact same time, involved delayed payment of the gold price which considered riba. Finally, the research proposed some solutions to this process for the transaction to be free of prohibited elements.