Record Nr.

UNINA9910451067403321

Autore

Dahlen Ashk

Titolo

Islamic law, epistemology and modernity : legal philosophy in contemporary Iran / / Ashk P. Dahlen

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-415-76240-5

1-135-94355-9

1-280-28854-X

9786610288540

0-203-50423-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Middle East Studies : History, Politics and Law

Altri autori (Persone)

DahlenAshk

Disciplina

340.5/9/0955

Soggetti

Islamic law - Iran - Philosophy

Islamic law - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. edition of: Deciphering the meaning of revealed law. c2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; List of transliteration; CHAPTER I: Introduction; A. Purpose and nature of the study; B. Theory and methodology; C. Previous research; D. Introductionary remarks on analytical concepts; E. Modernity, postmodernism and secularism; CHAPTER II: The Nature of Islamic law; A. An Islamic legal system? Law, jurisprudence and ethics; B. Law and spirituality: Shi'i esoterism; CHAPTER III: Categories of traditional Islamic epistemology; A. Knowledge and science; B. The 'historical-empirical' epistemic scheme

C. The 'theological', 'philosophical' and 'mystical' epistemic schemesD. The 'juristic-rational' epistemic scheme; CHAPTER IV: Shi'i legal dogmatics; A. Uşūl al-fiqh (legal theory); B. The constant sources of law: The Qur'an, sunnat and ijmāc (consensus); C. The non-constant source of law: caql (reason); D. Ijtihād (independent reasoning) and taqlīd (emulation); E. Hạuzah-yi cilmīyah ('precinct of knowledge'); F. Hermeneutical principles; G. Interpretative pluralism and ikhtiläf (divergence); CHAPTER V: Islamic traditionalism and Islamic modernism;

A. An Introduction to Islamic traditionalism

B. The Islamic traditionalist position of cAbdullāh Jawādī-δΑmulīC. An Introduction to Islamic modernism; D. The Islamic modernist position of Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistarī; CHAPTER VI: Surūsh on the nature of Islamic law; A. The Biography of cAbd al-Karim Surūsh; B. Style of communication; C. Philosophical foundation: Critical realism; D. Modernity and the West; E. Religion; F. Jurisprudence; G. Ijtihād; H. Hạuzah; CHAPTER VII: Surūsh's theory of contraction and expansion of religious knowledge; A. Its principal objectives; B. History: The Stage of natural man

C. Critical rationality: Self-determining and liberatedD. Science: Falsification and corroboration; E. Religious epistemology: Divine absolute or provisional conjecture?; F. Epistemological ambiguities: A priori and a posteriori; G. Epistemic relativism or epistemological relativism; H. Hermeneutics: There is nothing beyond the text; I. Divergent interpretations: The Problem of truth and probability; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. It is within this broad examination of a living legacy of interpretation that the context for the concretizations of traditional as well as modern Islamic learning, are enclosed.