Blockchain Technology for Islamic Marriage Certificate

  • Authors

    • Nor Elysha Kamaruzaman
    • Ihsan Mohd Yassin
    • Azlee Zabidi
    • Fadhlan Hafizhelmi Kamaru Zaman
    • Zairi Ismael Rizman
    • Rahimi Baharom
    • Norfishah Abdul Wahab
    2018-10-02
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.11.20802
  • blockchain technology, Islamic marriage certificate, Ethereum, smart contract.

  • In recent years, an individual under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto devised a revolutionary technology called blockchain as the engine behind the first decentralized virtual currency called Bitcoin. A radical concept departing from government-centric controlled currencies, Bitcoin has emerged as a disruptive technology with the power to revolutionize business and its processes. Advantages of the blockchain include decentralized control, immutability, elimination of central authority and solution of concurrency problems in traditional databases. Leveraging on the advantages of blockchain technology defined above, this paper discusses the potential application of blockchain technology for storage of Islamic marriage certificates. Marriage certificates are documents issued to couples to legally recognize their marriage. Due to its paper-based nature, there is significant risk for them to be forged or frauded. These issues can be addressed effective using blockchain. The proposed application was implemented using smart contracts on a simulated Ethereum platform. A smart contract is designed to execute automatically under certain predefined conditions. The use of smart contracts eliminate manipulation by a single party. In addition, the immutable concept of blockchain ensures that data integrity is always preserved, greatly reducing the risk of fraud.

     

     

  • References

    1. [1] Chek, R. (2010). Konsep perkahwinan dalam Islam dan Kristian: Kajian perbandingan. Masters thesis, University of Malaya.

      [2] Aste, T., Tasca, P., & Di Matteo, T. (2017). Blockchain technologies: The foreseeable impact on society and industry. Computer, 50(9), 18-28.

      [3] Ismail, W. A. F. W. (2017). Forms of document falsification in Malaysia’s Syariah courts. Geografia-Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 11(9), 32-39, 2015.

      [4] Leng, C. H. (2011). International marriages in Malaysia: Issues arising from state policies and processes. In G. W. Jones, T. H. Hull, & M. Mohamad (Eds.), Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions, Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 185-201.

      [5] Yusof, N., & Shukor, H. A. (2013). Status Anak Dalam Perkahwinan Sindiket Menurut Perspektif Syarak Dan Akta Undang-Undang Keluarga Islam Wilayah Persekutuan 1984. Proceeding of the International Conference on Social Science Research.

      [6] Pilkington, M. (2016). 11 Blockchain technology: Principles and applications. In by F. X. Olleros, & M. Zhegu (Eds.), Research Handbook on Digital Transformations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 225-253,

      [7] Mattila, J. (2016). The blockchain phenomenon – The disruptive potential of distributed consensus architectures. http://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/ETLA-Working-Papers-38.pdf.

      [8] Divers, D. (2015). Ethereum white paper: A next generation smart contract. https://www.ethereum.org/pdfs/EthereumWhitePaper.pdf.

      [9] Blockchain Technologies. (2017). Blockchain explained - Distributed ledgers and blockchain technology. http://www.blockchaintechnologies.com/blockchain-smart-contracts.

      [10] McCorry, P., Shahandashti, S. F., & Hao, F. (2017). A smart contract for boardroom voting with maximum voter privacy. Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, pp. 357-375.

      [11] Lundqvist, T., de Blanche, A., & Andersson, H. R. H. (2017). Thing-to-thing electricity micro payments using blockchain technology. Proceedings of the IEEE Global Internet of Things Summit, pp. 1-6.

      [12] Zhou, N., Wu, M., & Zhou, J. (2017). Volunteer service time record system based on blockchain technology. Proceedings of the IEEE 2nd Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, pp. 610-613.

      [13] Azaria, A., Ekblaw, A., Vieira, T., & Lippman, A. (2016). Medrec: Using blockchain for medical data access and permission management. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Open and Big Data, pp. 25-30.

      [14] Biswas, K., & Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2016). Securing smart cities using blockchain technology. Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 14th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 2nd International Conference on Data Science and Systems, pp. 1392-1393.

      [15] Human Rights Watch. (2017). Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning Malaysia. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/05/24/human-rights-watch-submission-committee-elimination-discrimination-against-women.

  • Downloads

  • How to Cite

    Elysha Kamaruzaman, N., Mohd Yassin, I., Zabidi, A., Hafizhelmi Kamaru Zaman, F., Ismael Rizman, Z., Baharom, R., & Abdul Wahab, N. (2018). Blockchain Technology for Islamic Marriage Certificate. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.11), 193-197. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.11.20802