Understanding Maqasid al-Shariah: A Contemporary Perspective - Softcover

Musafir Bin Ali Al-Qahtani

9781565646667: Understanding Maqasid al-Shariah: A Contemporary Perspective

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565646665 ISBN 13: 9781565646667

Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), 2015

Dr. Musafir bin Ali al-Qahtani's work contributes to the ever growing body of scholarly literature in the field of maqasid al-Shari'ah (higher objectives of Islamic law). Understanding Maqasidal-Shari ah calls for the development of a juridicial sense that is finely tuned to the higher objectives and purposes of Islamic rulings, the aims of which are the formulation of a new methodology in understanding the revealed texts and the reform of Muslim thought and its application. The author draws attention to the importance of understanding various levels of maqasid, including distinguishing between primary aims (al-maqasid al-asliyyah) and secondary aims (al-maqasid al-tabi'ah). Al-Qahtani asserts that a positive understanding of the objectives of the Shari'ah should produce affirming human and cultural developments in Muslim societies. The real strength of this work, however, is in the author's application of higher objectives and aims to different areas of jurisprudence, such as in deriving and issuing religious rulings (ifta'). and to important social issues and problems present in Muslim societies, such as extremism, jihad, commanding right and forbidding wrong, social change, crisis of Muslim thought, countering religious excessiveness, the need for recreation and leisure, citizenship and nation-belonging, spreading beauty and harmony in Islam, and the role of Muslim women in society.

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About the Author:

MUSFIR BIN ALI AL-QAHTANI is currently Associate Professor of Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

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