Legal reform in the Muslim world
Subtitle: anatomy of a scholarly dispute in the 19th and the early 20th centuries on the usage of Ijtihad as a legal tool
By: Muneer Goolam Fareed.
Publisher: Austin & Winfield
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
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.

Fareed's comparative analysis discusses the aims and processes of legal reform, based on the Ijtihad dispute by various reform movements and personalities, in light of the pressures of modernization, nationalism, colonial cultural and administrative activity. This book is an important addition to the field.