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IMAM AL-SHATIBI’S THEORY OF HIGHER OBJECTIVES & INTENT OF ISLAMIC LAW

With the end of the early Islamic period, Muslim scholars came to sense that a rift had begun to emerge between the teachings and principles of Islam and Muslims’ daily reality and practices. This book represents a pioneering contribution presenting a comprehensive theory of the objectives of Islamic Law in its various aspects, as well as a painstaking study of objectives-based thought as pioneered by the father of objectives-based jurisprudence, Imam Abﬁ Ishaq
al-Shatibi; in addition, the author presents us with an important study of al-Shatibi himself which offers a wealth of new, beneﬁcial information about the life, thought and
method of this venerable imam

AUTHOR: AHMED RAYSUNI
PUBLISHER: Islamic Book Trust Kuala Lumpur

The most important means by which Scholars sought to restore the intimate contact between
Muslims and the Qur’an was to study the objectives of Islam, the causes behind Islamic legal rulings and the intentions and goals underlying the Shari ‘ah, or Islamic Law. They made it clear that every legal ruling in Islam has a function which it performs, an aim which realizes, a cause, be it explicit or implicit, and an intention which it seeks to fulﬁll, and all of this in order to realize beneﬁt to human beings or to ward off harm or comiption. They showed how these intentions, and higher objectives might that times be contained explicitly in the text of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, while at other times, scholars might bring them to light by means of independent reasoning based on their understanding of the Qur’an and the Sunnqh within a
framework of time and space.