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islamic jurisprudence lecture 13 [a659c51b]

Tags: islamic jurisprudence

  • setting up the project

    • Do people still argue that the ulama in the 20th century are still characterized as a conservative force?

      • are the ulama overrepresented?

    • he focuses on Bakhit

      • ulama are proclaimed as the discourse of
    • bakhit in adopting the modernist epistimes, is no longer a frame of islamic law

    • discursive tradition of asad as a madhab

      • thinking in the terms of mcintyre is describing if we open the doors that wide
      • is the tradition "sharing the rules of the game" - legal typology?

    • is the "social madhab" a convincing one?

      • social institution

      • what is the inverse of the social madhab?

        • grants the ulama a way to tackle the reformists
        • he constrats it with the interpretive madhab
        • the madhab is still important as a form of solidarity
        • but continuing to partipate in the framework makes it so that you're not constrained by the same predecessor interpretive structures

      • is the network of the interconnected scholars distinctively hanafi?

        • or do they claim hanafi "traditions"

    • bakhit's trans-regional-ness, is that grounding or expanding the

      • practical colonial questions that needed to be solved

  • chapter 2

    • foregrounding between Rida and Bakhit
    • bakhit in the 1906 debate takes rida back
    • is this new temporality a historical conciousness that emphasizes prophetic tradition, and pushes aside the medivil accretions

    • genuine novelty requires completely new ijtihad

      • what happens with the passage of time?

      • drawing on maverick thinkers

        • bakhit is tapping into this strain
    • thinkers are given promience due to the chain of scholarship history, not because they are addressing the problems of the time

  • chapter 3

    • dichotemcy between science and religious scholars dissolved after the early period

      • bakhit's portrayal and his narrative
    • incorporating islam to the prevailing scientific theories of the day?
    • no other time where scholars would have to confront scientific theory and have to incorporate it into jurisprudence

    • what is this chapter doing in the book?

      • are we tired of the centrality of the state?

    • seduction of modern science -

      • notion of semmetry that is not attainable

  • chapter 4

    • objective reality that bakhit believes, and that this can be known through scientific means, this is a change of how fiqh was perceived
    • what was the characterization of western science?
    • is science and qiyas very far apart?

  • chapter 5

    • semioitics of religion
    • reconceptualizing religious matters to not needing to be verified
    • new notions of secular and religious
    • din/dunya dichometcy
    • what consitutes as din-ni is not adjudicatble in the court of law
  • using madhab as an organizing principle for islamic tradition