Sharia Today Essays on Contemporary Issues and Debates in Muslim Societies

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CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Shari’a as a Concept of Law
2. Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi’s Doctrine of the Maqasid al-Shari‘a
3. Contemporary Debates on Shari’a
4. Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad
5. Muslim Jurists’ Quest for the Normative Basis of Shari’a
6. Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities
7. Shari‘a as Ideology of Power
8. Shari‘a and Democracy
9. Shari‘a and Secular State
10. Interpreting Shari’a: Gender Equality
11. The Doctrine Of Siyasa In Islamic Law
12. Teaching of Shari‘a: Problematic of Islamic Legal Education

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book, Shari‘a Today is a selection of essays written between 1994 and 2007, the period of Shari‘a debates started in Pakistan and abroad. These essays address the following issues in the recent debates on Shari‘a: challenges of modernity, epistemological crisis, normativity, Muslim minorities, democracy, secularism, fundamentalism, authority and power, legal education, theories of state, rule of law and governance.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Muhammad Khalid Masud, M.A., Ph.D. (McGill University 1973) is presently an adhoc Judge of the Shaariat Appellate Bench, Supreme Court of Pakistan. He has formerly held the following positions in Pakistan and abroad: Director General, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad; Chairman, Council of Islamic Ideology, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad; Professor and Academic Director of ISIM, Leiden, the Netherlands; Senior Lecturer, Centre for Islamic Legal Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Nigeria; Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Law, International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris. He has published extensively on Islamic Law, contemporary issues, and on trends in the Muslim societies. Some of his publications are: Shatibi’s Philosophy of Islamic Law (1995), Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad (1995), Islamic Legal Interpretation: the Muftis and their Fatwas, co-edited with Brinkley Messick and David Powers (Harvard, 1996), (Editor) Islamic Laws and Women in the Modern World (1996), (Editor) Travelers in Faith, Studies on Tablighi Juma’at (Brill, 2000), Mafahim-i- Qur’an, Urdu Translation of T.Izutsu’s Ethical Terms in the Qur’an (2005), Dispensing Justice in Islam, Qadis and their Judgment, co-edited with David S. Powers and Ruud Peters (Brill, 2006); (Editor) Athharwin Sadi Isawi men Barri Saghir men Islami Fikr he Rahnuma in Urdu (IRI, 2008), Islam and Modernity, an introduction to key issues and debates, co-edited with Armando Salvatore and Martin van Bruinessen (University of Edinburgh Press, 2009), and Nuqushe Tagore (Faisalabad: Mithal, 2012).