The Sunni Muslim scholar, Mufti and preacher, Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (b. 1926), is one of the most prominent Muslim figures and religious authorities in contemporary time. His legal opinions (fatwāwā sg. fatwā) count as an important reference point for questions of religious practice among many Arabic and European Muslims as well. The present article aims to...Read More

Abdullah Saeed is one of Muslim scholars who concerns on contemporary Qur’anic studies very much. In his writing entitled Interpreting the Qur’an Towards A Contemporary Approach, Abdullah Saeed offers a methodology of contextual interpretation, which he called ascontextual approach, that is more detailed in comparison to other scholars on contemporary Qur’anic studies. In the writing,...Read More

The subject of Islamic movements is still take much luck of research and exploration within the Arab-Islamic intellectual circles and foreign intellectual circles alike, and it has been treated from several angles, some of that linked to the fundamental and historical dimension, some of that linked to the théorisation, the others linked to its patternsand...Read More

The notion of maqāṣid ash-sharīʿa (“purposes of the Sharia”) has given rise to various debates since its inception relating to Islamic legal questions. Today, many scholars and Muftis still resort to these objectives for their legal opinions (fatāwā sg. fatwā). However, due to unprecedented modern living circumstances, some broadened the traditional inherited understanding of maqāṣid,...Read More