Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought: An Examination

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Contemporary Muslim Reformist Thought and Maqāṣid cum Maṣlaḥa Approaches to Islamic Law: An Introduction....Pages 1-11
Islamic Law Reform and Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa in the Thought of Mohammad Hashim Kamali....Pages 13-37
Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Purposive Fiqh: Promoting or Demoting the Future Role of the ʿulamāʾ?....Pages 39-71
Doha—The Center of Reformist Islam? Considering Radical Reform in the Qatar Context: Tariq Ramadan and the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE)....Pages 73-99
Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa in Contemporary Shīʿī Jurisprudence....Pages 101-125
Maqāṣid or Sharīʿa? Secularism, Islamic Reform, and Ethics in Modern Turkey....Pages 127-150
Maṣlaḥa and Rachid al-Ghannushi’s Reformist Project....Pages 151-175
On Reading Shāṭibī in Rabat and Tunis....Pages 177-192
Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa, Gender Non-patriarchal Qurʾān-Sunna Hermeneutics, and the Reformation of Muslim Family Law....Pages 193-218
A Case Study of Patriarchy and Slavery: The Hermeneutical Importance of Qurʾānic Assumptions in the Development of a Values-Based and Purposive Qurʾān-Sunna Hermeneutic....Pages 219-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-270