<p>Competence of religious courts increasingly complex, but the more ques-tionable also about the existence of Islamic personality as a principle inherent in the Religious Court. Therefore this paper discusses the paradigm of Islamic personality in Religious Court. In order to analyze this issue then used the his-torical approach and conceptual approach. Based on the analysis, the exis-tence of religious court is directly proportional to the needs of Muslims and ru-lers in this country.

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... less, the Islamic personality has not been fully applicable to the religious court, since it is not yet clear that the policymakers to provide competencies that were previously the competence of other courts.</p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Islam, Islamic law, Islamic personality