Iiit Research Inda2

8/14/2019 Iiit Research Inda2

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ByInda

Hanum

Samsi

SummerInternship,IIIT


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TopicArea

:Fiqh and

Islamic

Law

(Shari'ah).

ResearchTopic:Shariah LawRevisited ItsRelevance

inthe

Modern

Society

and

the

Roles

of

Ijtihad in

ProtectionandPreservationoftheUmmah.

Research

Question

:

Is

it

possible

for

the

method

of

Ijtihad toopen

new

means

to

find

solutions

to

the

ModernSocietiesconflictinginterestwithoutsacrificingtheIslamiccoreprinciplesandvalues?


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In the project, instead of coming up with new

findings and data, I will make use of some of theIIIT and other publishers books, journals andpapers on the area that I will be researching on.

Also, given only five weeks to complete theproject, it will be more feasible to take thisapproach of researching and citing existingresources to find answers to the researchquestion. The paper will start with defining someof the popular terms in Fiqh and Islamic Law.Then, the key ideas in fiqh, Islamic law and its

sources will be elaborated.


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Next, the paper will go in depth to research and

comment on the roles of Ijtihad in the modernsociety and how it could help in finding abalance in todays modern and secular

world. The paper will conclude with my findingon the roles of Ijtihad in the society and myfinding on its relevance in opening new means toalleviate the increasing conflicts of differentinterests in the modern society. The paper willbe presented in a website format.


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Whatis

Shariah

(Islamic

law)?

TheImportanceandGoalsofShari'ah.

Isthere

aproblem

with

the

Islamic

Law?

ConfusioninDefiningTerms.

IslamicLaw:MythsandRealities.


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Whatis

Fiqh?

RulingsofSacredLaw.

Usulal

Fiqh.

TheoreticalFiqh irrelevant?


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WhatisMaqasidAlShariah?

Dimensionsof

Maqasid

Traditionalclassificationofmaqasid

Necessities Needs

Luxuries

IsThere

aProblem

with

the

Traditional

Classification

of

Maqasid alShariah?

The

Public

Good

and

the

End

Goals

of

Islamic

Law:

al

Maslahah andMaqasid alShariah


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WhatisQuranandSunnah?

Approaching

the

Quran

and

Sunnah.

If one takes a verse from the Quran or any particular hadith,without going back to the other hadith or to the Prophets

practice and without relating it to the maqasid, one is likelyto misunderstand and misinterpret the Shariah This is whyalImam al Shatibi in his book The Treatise insisted that to

understand the Shariah one has to comprehend and knowits end goals (al maqasid). This only happens when one isknowledgeable about the verses of the Quran and thehadith; why, how and when they were revealed, the reason

behind the revelation, which hadith are eternal and whichwere temporaletc. Yusuf AlQaradawi.


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What

is

Ijtihad? TheDegreesofIjtihad

Whydo

we

need

Ijtihad?

Howdowedoijtihad?


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Shariah

Law

Relevant?

RolesofIjtihad?

ResearchQuestion

:Is

it

possible

for

the

methodofIjtihadtoopennewmeanstofind

solutions

to

the

Modern

Societies

conflicting

interestwithoutsacrificingtheIslamiccore

principlesandvalues?

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