Where Revelation is Silent: Shari’a, Reason, and Islamic Natural Law
My general line of research concerns the relationship between reason and authority in Shari’a. In particular, I am currently completing a book on Islamic natural law theories, in which I provide an analysis of how premodern Muslim jurists theorized about the authority of reason as a source of Shari’...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-22 |
| Further subjects: | B
reason and authority in Shari'a
B Islamic natural law |
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| Summary: | My general line of research concerns the relationship between reason and authority in Shari’a. In particular, I am currently completing a book on Islamic natural law theories, in which I provide an analysis of how premodern Muslim jurists theorized about the authority of reason as a source of Shari’a norms where source-texts (e.g. Qur’an and Sunna) are otherwise silent. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v39i1.005 |