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This book captures the growing debate among Muslim scholars about the theory of the "Objectives of the Shar¿'a" (maq¿¿id al-shar¿'a) and its role in reforming Islamic law. The book is divided into two parts-one highlighting the theory's potential and the other its challenges.
List of contents
Editor's Introduction
Part I: Promises
1. Goals and Purposes Maqa?id al-Shari?ah: Methodological Perspectives
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
2. Realising Maqa?id in the Shari?ah
Jasser Auda
3. Freedom of Religion in the Age of Multi-Religious Societies with Special Reference to Maqa?id al-Shari?ah
Muhammad Khalid Masud
4. The Inviolability of Human Dignity: A Maqa?idi Perspective
Idris Nassery
5. Qur'an, Sunnah, Maqa?id and the Religious Other: The Ideas of Mu?ammad Sha?rur
Adis Duderija
6. Ibn ?A¯shu¯r's Interpretation of the Purposes of the Law (Maqa¯s?id al-Shari¯?ah): An Islamic Modernist Approach to Legal Change
Felicitas Opwis
7. Maqa?id al-Shari?ah in Islamic Contracts: A Study of Current Practices of Islamic Finance in Light of Islamic Legal Maxims
Younes Soualhi
Part II: Challenges
8. Reason and Revelation: A Meaningful Contribution to Contemporary Ethical Debates in a Secular Context
Muna Tatari
9. The Hermeneutical Approach of Sha?ibi on the Basis of the Maqa?id Definition of
About the author
Idris Nassery is postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.Rumee Ahmed is associate dean of arts and associate professor of Islamic law at the University of British Columbia.Muna Tatari is assistant professor of Islamic systematic theology in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.Rumee Ahmed is associate dean of arts and associate professor of Islamic law at the University of British Columbia.Idris Nassery is postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.Muna Tatari is assistant professor of Islamic systematic theology in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.
Summary
This book captures the growing debate among Muslim scholars about the theory of the “Objectives of the Shari‘a” (maqa?id al-shari‘a) and its role in reforming Islamic law. The book is divided into two parts—one highlighting the theory’s potential and the other its challenges.
