Where Revelation is Silent: Shari’a, Reason, and Islamic Natural Law
Issue: Vol 39 No. 1 (2010)
Journal: Bulletin for the Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
Abstract:
My general line of research concerns the relationship between reason and authority in Shari’a. In particular, I am currently completing a book on Islamic natural law theories, in which I provide an analysis of how premodern Muslim jurists theorized about the authority of reason as a source of Shari’a norms where source-texts (e.g. Qur’an and Sunna) are otherwise silent.
Author: Anver M. Emon