Tawhid and Shari'ah

This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur'anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta'wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur'anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari'ah. Masudul Alam Choudhury brings about a serious criticism of the traditional understanding of Shari'ah as Islamic law contrary to the holistic socio-scientific worldview of the unity of knowledge arising from Tawhid as the law. A bold repudiation of the Islamic traditional understanding and the school of theocracy, Choudhury's critique is in full consonance with the Qur'an and Sunnah. It is critical of the sectarian (madhab) conception of relational independence of facts. Thus the non-creative outlook of Shari'ah contrasts with universality and uniqueness of Tawhid as the analytically established law explaining the monotheistic organic unity of being and becoming in 'everything'. This wide and strict methodological development of the Tawhidi worldview is articulated in this work. The only way that Tawhid and Shari'ah can converge as law is in terms of developing the Tawhidi methodology, purpose and objective of the universal and unique law in consonance with the ontology of Tawhid. Such a convergence in the primal ontological sense of Tawhid is termed as maqasid as-shari'ah al-Tawhid.

Presents a comparative analysis in between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari'ah Brings out a serious criticism of the traditional usage and pursuit of the understanding of Shari'ah Written for scholars of Islamic studies, Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance The methodological orientation is universally applicable to all fields of socio-scientific knowledge, and thus to 'everything'

Autorentext
Masudul Alam Choudhury is International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia (IEF).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: A critique of shari'ah perspectives contra tawhid as law: terminologies.- Chapter 2: Introduction: tawhid contra shari'ah in scientific explanation of the world-system.- Chapter 3: Tawhid contra shari'ah treatment of qur'anic worldview.- Chapter 4: Tawhid as law contra shari'ah in standardizing a theory of islamic financial economy.- Chapter 5: Tawhid as law contra 'shari'ah-compliance' in malaysian advisory commission.- Chapter 6: A critical examination of the shari'ah in the light of the legal commercialreport of isra.-Chapter 7: Casting maqasid as-shari'ah in tawhidi ethodological worldview.- Chapter 8: The ontology of tawhid as the lawapplied to specific issues.- Chapter 9: A mathematical model of symbiotic aggregation and participatory dynamics in tawhidi epistemological worldview of unity of knowledge.- Chapter 10: Conscious technology and technological change in the light of tawhid: artificial intelligence, fintech, and other.- Chapter 11: Endogenous monetary transmission in islamic financial economics.- Chapter 12: Conclusion with an extension to tawhid and shari'ah in islamic banking paradigm. <p