Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach
Islamic law as a sum total of juristic views believed and practices by Muslims, by and large, is locked in interpretations made by legal scholars of the medieval ages. To relate it to contemporary needs of the Ummah, Muslims thinkers have been entangled with the question of its renewal for the past...
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| description | Islamic law as a sum total of juristic views believed and practices by Muslims, by and large, is locked in interpretations made by legal scholars of the medieval ages. To relate it to contemporary needs of the Ummah, Muslims thinkers have been entangled with the question of its renewal for the past two centuries. In this pursuit, the most thorny question has surrounded the methodology of accomplishing such a renewal. This has given rise to main three trends, namely traditionalists, modernists and liberal approaches to renewal of Islamic law. This paper, however, argues that rejuvenating Muslim religious law requires a synthetic method rather than a bigoted exclusivist approach as advocated by proponents of renewal in our time. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:67802012-05-19T09:22:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6780/ Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects Islamic law as a sum total of juristic views believed and practices by Muslims, by and large, is locked in interpretations made by legal scholars of the medieval ages. To relate it to contemporary needs of the Ummah, Muslims thinkers have been entangled with the question of its renewal for the past two centuries. In this pursuit, the most thorny question has surrounded the methodology of accomplishing such a renewal. This has given rise to main three trends, namely traditionalists, modernists and liberal approaches to renewal of Islamic law. This paper, however, argues that rejuvenating Muslim religious law requires a synthetic method rather than a bigoted exclusivist approach as advocated by proponents of renewal in our time. Berkely 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6780/2/renewal-synth.pdf Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah (2010) Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach. Global Jurist, 10 (1). pp. 1-15. |
| spellingShingle | KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach |
| title | Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach |
| title_full | Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach |
| title_short | Debate on methodology of renewing Muslim Law: a search for a synthetic approach |
| title_sort | debate on methodology of renewing muslim law a search for a synthetic approach |
| topic | KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects |
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