Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought
★★★★★
reviews
$16.95
In stock — ships today
Out of stockSKU IIIT003
Add $75.00 more for free US shipping
Secure checkout
30-day returns
Scholar-vetted
Description
About The Book
This collection of papers presents a reformist project calling upon Muslim intellectuals and scholars everywhere to comprehend the vast breadth and depth of the crisis engulfing Muslim thought today and the necessity of solving this crisis to enable the Ummah to experience a revival and fulfill its role among the nations of the world.
The reader will find a variety of articles dealing with this intellectual crisis, these include a chapter on ijtihad’s role and history, important since our intellectual problems cannot be solved without the scholars’ use of independent reasoning and creativity.
Another discusses imitation (taqlid) calling upon Muslim scholars and intellectuals to abandon imitation and to stop favoring the past over the present when trying to solve modern problems. Another looks at human rights.
About the Contributor(s)
About the author
Taha Jabir al-Alwani: Shaykh Dr. Taha Jabir al-Alwani (1935-2016) rahimahullah was an Iraqi Islamic scholar, jurist, and intellectual who dedicated his career to developing a contemporary Islamic methodology in jurisprudence and thought. He studied at al-Azhar University in Cairo, earning his doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence, and became a leading authority in usul al-fiqh (principles of Islamic law). He was a co-founder and longtime president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), based in Herndon, Virginia, which he helped establish as a center for the Islamization of knowledge. He also served as president of the Fiqh Council of North America, providing juristic guidance to Muslim communities in the West. Among his published works are 'Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought' (IIIT003) and 'The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam' (IIIT018), the latter addressing the Islamic framework for managing scholarly difference.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781565644144
Publisher
International Institute of Islamic Thought
Author
Taha Jabir al-Alwani
Pages
316
Year Published
2005
Size
W-6 in | H-8.9 in | D-0.8 in
Shipping & returns
Free US shipping on orders over $75. Multi-volume sets ship as one boxed parcel. 30-day returns — return shipping is on us for any fault in the book.