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Is Shariah Possible (II): Origins of a Cosmopolitan Venture
2009-09-08 11:16:00 A moral philosophy characteristically presupposes a sociology. For every moral philosophy offers explicitly or implicitly at least a partial conceptual analysis of the relationship of an agent to his or her reasons, motives, intentions and actions, and in so doing generally presupposes some claim that these concepts are embodied or at least can be in ...
Talibanization: Nemesis of a Betrayed Idea
2009-05-14 19:01:00 In order for Islamic idea to stand up to the efficacious ideas of twentieth century dynamic societies, it has to recover its original efficacy, that is to say, to resume its position among the ideas that make history -Malik Bennabi This Sunday, as I was surfing through Malik Bennabi’s ‘Islam in History and Society‘ at my ...
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (III): Grundnorm, a cosmological myth
2008-07-29 16:49:00 To effectively address the original Weberian objection i.e. normative pluralism is substantively irrational, it is mandatory to reformulate the problem in concise terms, starting point being that change in Islamic law takes place by means of some interpretive mechanism called Ijtihad. What exactly constitutes it: Is it the interpretation of the textual source ab initio; ...
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
2008-01-09 18:26:00 The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan] In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India. The seeker was a claimant who wanted to re-establish conjugal rights with his wife but his in-laws refused to let her join on the ...
Islamic Law & Social Change
2007-10-28 18:24:00 Norman Calder, introducing Islamic law in one of his papers for Syed Hussein Nasr’s History of Islamic Philosophy, narrates a story of an anxious wealthy man trying to find a suitable wife for his son being fearful that he might divorce her and squander his wealth. He came to Abu Hanifah with his query. “I could ...
Ramadan Reflections 2: Harnessing the desire to consume
2007-09-18 15:43:00 From the translation of Amin Ahsan Islahi’s Tazkiya-e-Nafs: […] people tend to make Ramadan a month of festivities and fun time. They think that they are not answerable for the extravagance made in this month. They relish everything they eat. The result is that instead of trying to discipline themselves they end up pampering themselves. Throughout ... |
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