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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity : Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran. In light of the relationship between global modernity and the religion of Islam, the purpose is to analyze to what extent these positions and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor & Francis
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; List of transliteration; CHAPTER I: Introduction; A. Purpose and nature of the study; B. Theory and methodology; C. Previous research; D. Introductionary remarks on analytical concepts; E. Modernity, postmodernism and secularism; CHAPTER II: The Nature of Islamic law; A. An Islamic legal system? Law, jurisprudence and ethics; B. Law and spirituality: Shi'i esoterism; CHAPTER III: Categories of traditional Islamic epistemology; A. Knowledge and science; B. The 'historical-empirical' epistemic scheme
- C. The 'theological', 'philosophical' and 'mystical' epistemic schemesD. The 'juristic-rational' epistemic scheme; CHAPTER IV: Shi'i legal dogmatics; A. Uşūl al-fiqh (legal theory); B. The constant sources of law: The Qur'an, sunnat and ijmāc (consensus); C. The non-constant source of law: caql (reason); D. Ijtihād (independent reasoning) and taqlīd (emulation); E. Hạuzah-yi cilmīyah ('precinct of knowledge'); F. Hermeneutical principles; G. Interpretative pluralism and ikhtiläf (divergence); CHAPTER V: Islamic traditionalism and Islamic modernism; A. An Introduction to Islamic traditionalism
- C. Critical rationality: Self-determining and liberatedD. Science: Falsification and corroboration; E. Religious epistemology: Divine absolute or provisional conjecture?; F. Epistemological ambiguities: A priori and a posteriori; G. Epistemic relativism or epistemological relativism; H. Hermeneutics: There is nothing beyond the text; I. Divergent interpretations: The Problem of truth and probability; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index