Objectives of the Islamic Law and Contemporary Issues

Summary

The book is a collection of studies presented at the specialist course on “Purposes of the Islamic Law and Contemporary Issues”, which was organised by the Centre for the Study of the Philosophy of Islamic Law, of Al-Furqān in collaboration with the Centre for Legal and Economic Research and Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alexandria, organised in the year 2006. The book consists of variety of lectures dealing with pertinent contemporary issues in the fields of the foundations of religion (uṣūl), politics, sociology, law and law-making. Also included are studies on: Fundamental Entry to the Knowledge of Maqāṣid; a Maqāṣidi Entry to Ijtihād and Development; Civil Society in Light of the Universal Maqāṣid of Islamic Law; Activating the Maqāṣidi Paradigm in the Political and Social Fields; The Purpose of Justice and its Effects in the Islamic Law; and The Idea of Maqāṣid in Positive Law.