Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity

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ISBN: 9780415945295 | 0415945291
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/28/2003

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Dahlen provides a comprehensive analysis of the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran, in light of the relationship between global modernity and the religion of Islam.

Preface

List of transliteration

Introduction

(36)

Purpose and nature of the study

(4)

Theory and methodology

(7)

Previous research

(5)

Introductionary remarks on analytical concepts

(6)

Modernity, postmodernism and secularism

(14)

The Nature of Islamic law

(16)

An Islamic legal system? Law, jurisprudence and ethics

(12)

Law and spirituality: Shi'i esoterism

(4)

Categories of traditional Islamic epistemology

(22)

Knowledge and science

(4)

The 'historical-empirical' epistemic scheme

(5)

The `theological', `philosophical' and `mystical' epistemic schemes

(5)

The `juristic-rational' epistemic scheme

(8)

Shi'i legal dogmatics

(26)

Usul al-fiqh (legal theory)

(2)

The constant sources of law: The Qur'an, sunnat and ijma (consensus)

(3)

The non-constant source of law: 'aql (reason)

(5)

Ijtihad (independent reasoning) and taqlid (emulation)

(3)

Hauzah-yi 'ilmiyah (`precinct of knowledge')

(2)

Hermeneutical principles

(5)

Interpretative pluralism and ikhtilaf (divergence)

(6)

Islamic traditionalism and Islamic modernism

103

(84)

An Introduction to Islamic traditionalism

106

(20)

The Islamic traditionalist position of 'Abdullah Jawadi-Amuli

126

(17)

An Introduction to Islamic modernism

143

(20)

The Islamic modernist position of Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistari

163

(24)

Surush on the nature of Islamic law

187

(66)

The Biography of 'Abd al-Karim Surush

187

(7)

Style of communication

194

(3)

Philosophical foundation: Critical realism

197

(5)

Modernity and the West

202

(8)

Religion

210

(13)

Jurisprudence

223

(18)

Ijtihad

241

(5)

Hauzah

246

(7)

Surush's theory of contraction and expansion of religious knowledge

253

(90)

Its principal objectives

253

(2)

History: The Stage of natural man

255

(8)

Critical rationality: Self-determining and liberated

263

(4)

Science: Falsification and corroboration

267

(20)

Religious epistemology: Divine absolute or provisional conjecture?

287

(9)

Epistemological ambiguities: A priori and a posteriori

296

(13)

Epistemic relativism or epistemological relativism

309

(7)

Hermeneutics: There is nothing beyond the text

316

(17)

Divergent interpretations: The Problem of truth and probability

333

(10)

Conclusions

343

(26)

Bibliography

369

(18)

Index

387

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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity

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