Critical-Progressive Muslims: On Islamic hermeneutics, Gender and Interreligious Dialogue

    Renewal of Islamic Law and Maqāṣid sharīʿa in the Thought of Mohammad Hashim Kamali  adopted from this publication-chapter one -  Mohammad Hashim Kamali( b.1944) is one of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the concept of renewal ( tajd ī d ) of Muslim thought and   maqāṣid sharīʿa     for over four decades. In this lecture Dr.Duderija aims to present some of Professor Kamali’s ideas on renewal of Islamic law with the specific emphasis on the role of maqāṣid sharīʿa   in this respect. In the first part, Dr.Duderija discusses the concept of tajdid hadari as understood by Kamali. The second part of the lecture Dr. Duderija outlines various avenues and methods Kamali uses in his writing on renewal of Islamic law with the emphasises on the nature of the shari’a, Qur'an, sunna and the role of reason in Islamic law and ethics. In the final part Dr.Duderija presents Kamali’s views on tajdid oriented maqasid al sharia.   Brief...

  Islam and The Religious Other -Some Reflections on The Nature of this Relationship in early Islam and Beyond Adis Duderija, Ph.D. Paper prepared for the Paris UNESCO webinar/Conference, February 2022 How do the normative fountainheads of Islam, the Qur’an and Sunna approach the relationship between the Muslim Self and the religious Other? To begin to answer this question more needs to be said about the revelatory environment in which the Qur’anic revelation and the Prophet’s embodiment of it (Sunna) took place as it relates to the question of Muslim confessional identity and that of the religious Other. The emphasis on context is based on the fundamental consideration that that even a cursory examination of the nature of Qur’an as Revelation and   its content (and therefore the Prophet’s legacy) was organically linked to this context, including its dimension that relates to the relationship between Muslims and the religious Other. Beyond scripture, the approach taken ...