Journals

Hassan Hanafi and Islamic Legal Theory: From Phenomenology to Critique of the Slogan “Going Back to the Qur’an and Sunna”

Islamic legal theory (popularly known as uṣūl al-fiqh in Islamic term) runs into difficulties when dealing with social and humanities issues. Religious texts, according to Hassan Hanafi’s perspective, should not only be positioned as a source of law, but also at the same time must be seen...