Tawhid and Shari'ah
A Transdisciplinary Methodological Enquiry
Authors: Choudhury, Masudul Alam
Free Preview- Presents a comparative analysis in between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah
- Brings out a serious criticism of the traditional usage and pursuit of the understanding of Shari’ah
- Written for scholars of Islamic studies, Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance
- The methodological orientation is universally applicable to all fields of socio-scientific knowledge, and thus to 'everything'
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- About this book
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This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur’anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta’wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur’anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah. Masudul Alam Choudhury brings about a serious criticism of the traditional understanding of Shari’ah as Islamic law contrary to the holistic socio-scientific worldview of the unity of knowledge arising from Tawhid as the law. A bold repudiation of the Islamic traditional understanding and the school of theocracy, Choudhury’s critique is in full consonance with the Qur’an and Sunnah. It is critical of the sectarian (madhab) conception of relational independence of facts. Thus the non-creative outlook of Shari’ah contrasts with universality and uniqueness of Tawhid as the analytically established law explaining the monotheistic organic unity of being and becoming in ‘everything’. This wide and strict methodological development of the Tawhidi worldview is articulated in this work. The only way that Tawhid and Shari'ah can converge as law is in terms of developing the Tawhidi methodology, purpose and objective of the universal and unique law in consonance with the ontology of Tawhid. Such a convergence in the primal ontological sense of Tawhid is termed as maqasid as-shari'ah al-Tawhid.
- About the authors
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Masudul Alam Choudhury is International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia (IEF).
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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A Critique of Shari’ah Perspectives Contra Tawhid as Law: Terminologies
Pages 7-40
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Casting Maqasid Al-Shari’ah in Tawhidi Methodological Worldview
Pages 41-57
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Tawhid Contra Shari’ah Treatment of Qur’anic Worldview
Pages 59-86
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Tawhid as Law Contra Shari’ah in Standardizing a Theory of Islamic Financial Economy
Pages 87-96
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Tawhid and Shari'ah
- Book Subtitle
- A Transdisciplinary Methodological Enquiry
- Authors
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- Masudul Alam Choudhury
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-49087-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-49087-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-49086-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 253
- Number of Illustrations
- 24 b/w illustrations
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