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- Presents a comparative analysis in between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah
- Brings out a serious criticism of the traditional usage and pursuit of the understanding of Shari’ah
- Written for scholars of Islamic studies, Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance
- The methodological orientation is universally applicable to all fields of socio-scientific knowledge, and thus to 'everything'
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur’anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta’wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur’anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah. Masudul Alam Choudhury brings about a serious criticism of the traditional understanding of Shari’ah as Islamic law contrary to the holistic socio-scientific worldview of the unity of knowledge arising from Tawhid as the law. A bold repudiation of the Islamic traditional understanding and the school of theocracy, Choudhury’s critique is in full consonance with the Qur’an and Sunnah. It is critical of the sectarian (madhab) conception of relational independence of facts. Thus the non-creative outlook of Shari’ah contrasts with universality and uniqueness of Tawhid as the analytically established law explaining the monotheistic organic unity of being and becoming in ‘everything’. This wide and strict methodological development of the Tawhidi worldview is articulated in this work. The only way that Tawhid and Shari'ah can converge as law is in terms of developing the Tawhidi methodology, purpose and objective of the universal and unique law in consonance with the ontology of Tawhid. Such a convergence in the primal ontological sense of Tawhid is termed as maqasid as-shari'ah al-Tawhid.
Authors and Affiliations
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Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics & Finance, Faculty of Economics (IEF), Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Masudul Alam Choudhury
About the author
Masudul Alam Choudhury is International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia (IEF).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tawhid and Shari'ah
Book Subtitle: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Enquiry
Authors: Masudul Alam Choudhury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49087-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49086-7Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49089-8Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49087-4Published: 30 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Islam, Philosophy of Science, Islamic Finance