Comments on: Imam al-Shatibi: Two Reason Why the Shari’ah is Moderate http://www.suhaibwebb.com/islam-studies/imam-al-shatibi-two-reason-why-the-shari%e2%80%99ah-is-moderate/ Your Virtual Mosque Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:31:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: affad shaikh http://www.suhaibwebb.com/islam-studies/imam-al-shatibi-two-reason-why-the-shari%e2%80%99ah-is-moderate/comment-page-1/#comment-755 affad shaikh Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:05:44 +0000 http://www.suhaibwebb.com/blog/?p=147#comment-755 Subhan-Allah the numerous mountains of knowledge that illuminate our history is unbelievable. So many of them have been lost over the ages by our own lack of respect for scholarship. Is this Imam al-Shatibi the grand scholar from Andalus, maliki jurist and the person who established maslaha as a means of reaching decisions in fiqh issues? I am reading an amazing book called "islamic legal philosophy" that chronicle's his contributions to our Ummah. I encourage all who are interested in shariah and living in the west to pick the book up and pursue through it to gain an understanding of how centuries before Muslims even had to live in the West this man was already working on addressing issues that we face today as Muslims. He was a man ahead of his time dealing with modernity and shariah (modernity is being used relatively and historically here. Modernity in the sense that Shatibi worked with trying to reconcile Muslim practices and the reality of Christian laws and customs encroaching on the Muslim state/sharia and modernity in the sense that we live in a world secularized and far removed from divine law and the concept of static jurisprudence) Jazaka-Allahkhair for posting. Subhan-Allah the numerous mountains of knowledge that illuminate our history is unbelievable. So many of them have been lost over the ages by our own lack of respect for scholarship.

Is this Imam al-Shatibi the grand scholar from Andalus, maliki jurist and the person who established maslaha as a means of reaching decisions in fiqh issues?

I am reading an amazing book called “islamic legal philosophy” that chronicle’s his contributions to our Ummah.

I encourage all who are interested in shariah and living in the west to pick the book up and pursue through it to gain an understanding of how centuries before Muslims even had to live in the West this man was already working on addressing issues that we face today as Muslims. He was a man ahead of his time dealing with modernity and shariah (modernity is being used relatively and historically here. Modernity in the sense that Shatibi worked with trying to reconcile Muslim practices and the reality of Christian laws and customs encroaching on the Muslim state/sharia and modernity in the sense that we live in a world secularized and far removed from divine law and the concept of static jurisprudence)

Jazaka-Allahkhair for posting.

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