SPECIAL ISSUE
Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a
On May 2-5, 2021, as the world stood humbled by COVID-19—the smallest of God’s creation that has humbled the mightiest—over a dozen Muslim scholars spent a portion of the Blessed Days of Ramadan in a virtual AJIS symposium. The meeting, titled “Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a” was inaugurated by a keynote address by the senior contemporary Muslim jurist and leading commentator on the Maqāṣid discourse, Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali. That thoughtful presentation is being reproduced here as a fitting introduction to this collection of articles. In this brief introductory note, I provide a summary of the presentations in the symposium before turning the reader over to our learned jurist’s critical appraisal of where the maqāṣid discourse stands today.
Edtiorial
Editorial Note
Abstract 321 | PDF Downloads 236 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3109Page 2-5
Keynote Address
History and Jurisprudence of the Maqāṣid
Abstract 424 | PDF Downloads 348 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3110Page 8-34
Articles
From Islamic Modernism to Theorizing Authoritarianism
Abstract 893 | PDF Downloads 380 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2934Page 36-70
Before Maqāṣid
Abstract 250 | PDF Downloads 268 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2990Page 71-102
Maqāṣid and the Renewal of Islamic Legal Theory in ʿAbdullah Bin Bayyah’s Discourse
Abstract 335 | PDF Downloads 582 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2987Page 103-145
Book Reviews
Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen)
Abstract 288 | PDF Downloads 176 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2977Page 148-151
Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic (by Philip Dorroll)
Abstract 228 | PDF Downloads 127 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3046Page 152-156
Sufism in Ottoman Egypt Circulation Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (by Rachida Chih)
Abstract 267 | PDF Downloads 124 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3002Page 157-159
Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam (by Bradley Bowman)
Abstract 205 | PDF Downloads 115 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2996Page 160-163
Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years (by Garrett A. Davidson)
Abstract 338 | PDF Downloads 423 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2992Page 164-170
In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada (by Natasha Bakht)
Abstract 292 | PDF Downloads 119 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.2985Page 171-175
The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (by Hikmet Karčić, Ferid Dautović, and Ermin Sinanović, eds.)
Abstract 250 | PDF Downloads 94 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3030Page 176-179
Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects: Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics (by Faraz Masood Sheikh)
Abstract 225 | PDF Downloads 87 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3004Page 180-185
Reports
Islam and Psychology
Abstract 451 | PDF Downloads 274 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.697Page 188-194
Obituary
AbdulHamid Ahmad AbuSulayman’s Legacy of Intellectual Reform
Abstract 442 | PDF Downloads 167 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v38i3-4.3111Page 196-208