A book that discusses contemporary issues facing the Muslim societies has been published. The book entitled “Shari’a Today” by Dr Muhammad Khalid Masud, a noted a scholar and former chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
The book, published by the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD) of the International Islamic University (IIUI) in collaboration with the National Book Foundation as part of the IRD series on studies, says a press release. It contains essays on issues in the Muslim societies and discusses Shariah as a concept of law, contemporary debates on Sharia, Iqbal’s reconstruction of Ijtihad, Muslim jurists’ quest for the normative basis of Sharia, Islamic law and Muslim minorities, Sharia as an ideology of power, Sharia and democracy and secular state, interpreting Sharia and gender equality and doctrine of politics in the Islamic law.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Masud said he had discussed history of Islamic law in detail by going through centuries of its evolution. He also talked about various schools of law such as Imamia, Ismailia, Hanafia, Malikia, Shafia, Hanbalia, Zahiria, Zaydia and Ibadia.
“All the essays in the book are relevant to the discussions taking place today around Shari’a in the western world in general and Muslim world in particular,” he said.
“The debate whether Shariah is compatible with democracy, modern legal norms and fundamental human rights as enshrined in international charters and modern constitutions of nation-states is as old as the first encounters between the Islamic World and the Western modernity,” IRD Executive Director Dr Mumtaz Ahmad said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2014.
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