Legal Reform in the Muslim World

The Anatomy of a Scholarly Dispute in the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries on the Usage of Ijtihād as a Legal Tool

• Author(s): Muneer Goolam Fareed,
• Publisher: Austin & Winfield
• Pages: 171
• ISBN_10: 1572920033
  ISBN_13: 9781572920033
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / General , Law / Islamic , Reference / General , Religion / Islam / Law ,

Description:... This ground-breaking new monograph underscores the fact that Ijtihad, although long emphasized as an integral aspect of modern Islamic law, has a flexible definition. The concept of Ijtihad had had immense popularity amongst every segment of Muslim intelligentsia and has been used in a variety of religious and secular setting, however, none of the intelligentsia or various reform groups agree on its meaning. Dr.