Fiqh al-aqalliyyāt : history, development, and progress / Said Fares Hassan.

"How can Muslims strike a balance between religious commitments and their civic identity as citizens in Western liberal states? Hassan examines the development of a contemporary internal Muslim debate on the production of a new form of Islamic jurisprudence, Fiqh al-aqalliyyāt, or the jurisprudence...

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Main Author: Hassan, Said Fares (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Palgrave series in Islamic theology, law, and history.
Subjects:
Islamic law > Non-Islamic countries.
Muslims > Non-Islamic countries.
Physical Description:xvi, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Between text and context : the impact of textual literalism and puritan ideology on the life of Muslim minorities
  • 2. Voice of tradition : Muslim minorities and application of Islamic law
  • 3. Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī : an ideologue for Muslim minorities
  • 4. Ṭaha Jābir al-ʻAlwānī : Fiqh al-Aqalliyyāt, a model of Islamization of knowledge
  • 5. Fiqh al-Aqalliyyāt : a debate on world division, citizenship, and loyalty.