There are eleven categories of Islamic institutions in Malaysia that create and manage various records. These institutions include Islamic educational institutions, Islamic courts, Islamic museums, Islamic banks, zakat institutions, Islamic preaching organizations, Islamic libraries, non-governmental Islamic organizations, Islamic training centers, Islamic insurance companies, and Islamic foundation organizations. The records managed by these institutions provide information on Islamic knowledge, laws, history, financial transactions, religious obligations, training programs, and more, depending on the specific role and functions of each organization.

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ISLAMIC INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 4:
TYPES OF ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS AND
RECORDS
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2. Today's content
• Types of Islamic Institutions in Malaysia
• Information provided by these institutions
• Types of Records Created by These
Institutions
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3. Types of Islamic Institutions in Malaysia
• Basically there are eleven categories of Islamic
institutions in Malaysia. They are‑
1. Islamic educational institution.
2. Islamic court/ Syariah court
3. Islamic museum
4. Islamic bank
5. Zakat's institution
6. Islamic preaching institution
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7. Islamic library
8. Non-governmental Islamic institution
9. Islamic training center
10.Islamic insurance institution
11.Islamic Foundation institutions
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6. Information Provided By These Institutions
1. Islamic educational institution in Malaysia.
 They provide information on Islamic knowledge; Fardhu
ain and Fardhu kifayah.
 The examples of knowledge are
 Islamic law,
 Islamic economy,
 Fiqh,
 Islamic belief,
 Islamic international relationship,
 Islamic politics,
 Science of Hadiths,
 Science of Quran,
 Islamic morals (akhlak),
 Tasawuf knowledge etc.
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2. Islamic court/Syariah court
 They provide knowledge on Islamic legal
system like
 marriage knowledge,
 Islamic criminal knowledge like
gambling, did not perform Jumaat
prayer (The Muslim) and khalwat.
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3. Islamic museum
 The responsibility of Islamic museums is to
preserve Islamic artifacts and manuscripts.
 They provide a lot of Islamic historical
information like the Islamic emergence in Malay
peninsular and the preaching of Islam by the
Arab missionaries.
 They also provide information on Islamic
artifacts and manuscripts for instance prophet
sword, hand written Quran and traditions,
artifacts showing the relationship between
Islamic governments.
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4. Islamic banking
 One of the functions of this institution is to
provide knowledge on Islamic banking for
example
 al-wadiah,
 al-mudharabah,
 ar-rahnu,
 al-bai' bithaman ajil,
 al-Ijarah and
 Islamic investment.
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5. Zakat's institutions
 They provide knowledge on the concept of zakat in Islam
like:
 Income zakat,
 zakat fitrah,
 trade zakat,
 gold zakat,
 saving zakat,
 livestock zakat and
 Besides that, they also give information on those who
are qualified to receive zakat from this institution and
how zakat is spent, invested and distributed.
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6. Islamic preaching institution
 The responsibility of this institutions is to preach
Islamic information and practice to the Muslim
and non Muslim community.
 They provide information regarding the daily
religious practice like fasting, praying, and their
belief as well as their code of conduct.
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7. Islamic library
 These institutions provide information
materials regarding the Islamic teaching
either printed or non-printed.
 They also provide services on borrowing
Islamic materials, inter library loans,
Islamic indexes and databases and etc.
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8. Non-governmental Islamic organizations
 Among the role of non-governmental institutions
are to support government policy and to help
the government agencies to spread Islamic
teaching information to the community.
 Mainly, these institutions provide information
based on the nature of their business.
 Besides that, they provide information regarding
the daily religious practice, their belief and their
code of conduct.
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9. Islamic training center
 As an Islamic training center, it also helps the
government agencies to spread Islamic
knowledge.
 The role of this institution is to provide formal
training to the users.
 Among the training they provide are marriages
training for the facilitators, leadership trainings
for the officers from the Islamic institution,
pilgrimage trainings for the Muslim preachers
etc.
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10.Islamic insurance institution
 These institutions provide information on
insurance for example family insurance,
health insurance, transport insurance and
etc.
 They also provide information on the
claims over insurer, insurance policy and
etc.
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11. Islamic Foundation institutions
 These institutions usually established for certain
purpose.
 They run business to achieve the targeted
purpose.
 These institutions provide information based on
the nature of their business.
 Sometimes they also support private
institutions to conduct programs pertaining to
their business financially as well as morally.
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17. Types of Records Created by These Institutions
1-Islamic educational institution in Malaysia
 The main records managed are educational records like
 students' applications,
 examination results,
 payment of fees,
 records of attendance,
 scholarships,
 students activities,
 trainings,
 seminars,
 courses as well as education transcripts.
 The examples of institutions are International Islamic
University (UIA) and state Islamic colleges.
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2-Islamic court
The main responsibility of Islamic court is to
implement Islamic Law and preserve justice.
The Islamic court manages Islamic legal records like
Syariah criminal records (red color) and
divorce records (blue color).
The divorce records include Taklik and fasakh
records.
Besides that, it also has polygamy's records
hadhanah records.
The example of Islamic court is state Islamic court.
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3-Islamic museum
The responsibility of Islamic museums is to preserve
Islamic artifacts and manuscripts.
The Islamic religious records they preserve are
manuscripts and treaty(agreement) produced
especially by the Islamic government.
They also have a lot of artifacts like the artifacts of
prophet's sword, the emergence of Islam etc.
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4-Islamic bank
Among the records managed by this
institution are Islamic transaction records
like:
al-wadiah,
al-bai' bithaman ajil,
al-Ijarah,
al-mudharabah,
ar-rahnu and
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5-Zakat's institution
The records managed by these institutions are
 income zakat,
 zakat Fitrah,
 gold's zakat,
 livestock's zakat
Besides that they also create records on how
zakat is spent, invested and distributed.
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6-Islamic preaching institution
The responsibility of this institutions is to preach
Islamic information and practice to the Muslim and
non Muslim community.
The records managed are depending on the nature
of the agencies.
For instance, Jabatan Agama Islam has records
regarding marriage while Pejabat Mufti has records
of Fatwas.
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7-Islamic library
 They create and manage records regarding
the acquisition and processing the Islamic
information materials.
 They also have records of borrowing
materials and fees.
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8-Non-governmental Islamic institution
The records managed are depending on the
nature of the agencies.
The examples, Persatuan Pengguna Islam
Malaysia has records regarding the Muslim
customers.
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9-Islamic training center
They create certificates and keep the records
of the participants like
applications,
, records of attendance and
payment of fees.
Besides that, they also manage the module
and paperwork for each training.
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10-Islamic insurance
These institutions have records on
insurance policy,
claims,
check,
insured person's payments and etc.
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11-Records at Islamic Foundation
institutions
These institutions create records regarding to
their main business.
Among the examples of the records are
financial records.
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