Tag: Introduction to Islamic law

Do we need to ‘de-westernize’ knowledge? Q and A IPSA-Cape Town 2019...

The war on concepts & objectives SIXTH CLASS:INTRO TO FIQH IPSA- CAPE TOWN 2019 This is from the 6th lecture (out of 10, “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course). After we build the Quranic objectives/maqasid and concepts/mafaheem web, how can we realize them in today’s reality on all levels and in all fields of knowledge and action? The answer has to do with the role of the Arabic language as the language of the Islamic identity, and the measures required for Muslims to fight back the “war on concepts and objectives” that the Islamic thought is facing, and the ways to...

 Maqasid of Quranic structure & eloquence Fifth Class:Intro to Fiqh IPSA- Cape Town 2019 This is from the 5th lecture (out of 10), which Dr.Jasser teaches as a “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course. He presented here a detailed analysis of the maqasid of the Quranic language; tacit meanings, various readings/qira’aat of the ayaat, Quranic techniques of eloquence and expression, and the maqasid of the Surahs/chapters. The outcome Quranic maqasid list is a large web of highly interconnected meanings that are not amenable to the usual fiqhi hierarchies of...

 Q and A IPSA-Cape Town 2019 This is from the Q and A of the 3rd lecture (out of 10, “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course). The question is: Can we approach the Quran without a pre-conceived philosophy? The answer is no, and compares the maqasidi approach that is influenced by the contemporary systems philosophy, and Imam Abu Hamed Al-Ghazali’s reading of the Logic of Syllogism into the Quran itself. Abu Hamed then called the Organon a “necessary tool” and a condition to have any level of confidence in any...

Towards a Quranic Maqasid-based Methodology Third Class :Intro to Fiqh IPSA-Cape Town 2019   This is from the 3rd lecture (out of 10), which Dr.Jasser Auda teach as a “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course. He explained how cyclical reflection is not a hermeneutical cycle, since its objectives are defined by the Text itself and not from outside of it. Avoiding the “methodological errors” that the Quran warns from, and asking questions of system components and arguments for proof, resulted in a group of fundamentals/usul that will constitute tools for analysis, elements of study and objectives for action at all levels...