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Radical Reform - Islamic Ethics and Liberation (Hardcover)
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Radical Reform - Islamic Ethics and Liberation (Hardcover)
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Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of
reformist Islam in the West. In one of his previous books, 'Western
Muslims and the Future of Islam'he urged his fellow Muslims to
participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies in
which they live, and addressed many of the issues that stand in the
way of such participation. In this new book he tackles head-on the
thorniest of these issues - namely, the rulings of Islamic jurists
that make Islam seem incompatible with modern, scientifically and
technologically advanced, democratic societies. He argues that it
is crucial to find theoretical and practical solutions that will
enable Western Muslims to remain faithful to Islamic ethics while
fully living within their societies and their time. He notes that
Muslim scholars often refer to the notion of ijtihad (critical and
renewed reading of the foundational texts) as the only way for
Muslims to take up these modern challenges. But, Ramadan argues, in
practice such readings have effectively reached the limits of their
ability to serve the faithful in the West as well as the East. In
this book he sets forward a radical new concept of ijtihad, which
puts context - including the knowledge derived from the hard and
human sciences, cultures and their geographic and historical
contingencies - on an equal footing with the scriptures as a source
of Islamic law. This global and comprehensive approach, he says,
seems to be the only way to go beyond the current limits and face
up to the crisis in contemporary Islamic thought: Muslims need a
contemporary global and applied ethics. After setting out this
proposal, Ramadan applies his new methodology to several practical
case studies involving controversial issues in five areas: medical
ethics, education, economics, marriage and divorce, culture and
creativity. His radical proposal and the conclusions to which it
leads him are bound to provoke discussion and controversy. Muslims
and non-Muslims alike will have to contend with Ramadan's new idea
of the very basis of Islam in the modern world.
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