Poya A (2018)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Authored book, Volume of book series
Publication year: 2018
Publisher: De Gruyter
City/Town: Berlin
ISBN: 9783110459616
Justice is considered the basic norm of human coexistence. Every
legal order refers to the concept of justice, and Muslims also regard
their religious norms (the Sharia) as offering just solutions to legal
questions. But is the assumption that the Sharia is just merely an
acceptance of a status quo correct? And is justice the necessary aim of
the Sharia? In this volume, renowned scholars discuss these questions
from different perspectives. In principle, the first normative source of
Islam, the Qur'an, orders justice and fair conduct (Rohe). At the same
time, an analysis of the concept of justice in the classical age of
Islam (Ahmed and Poya) also shows that there existed ambivalent
understandings of this concept. The relationship of the idea of justice
in Islam to political questions (Ende), to war (Poya), and to modern
reform (Mir-Hosseini) again confirms the importance of the concept for a
critical reflection on traditional assumptions and existing
circumstances. The discussion on the hijab in Western countries (Ladwig)
shows paradigmatically how justice can regulate the relationship
between the secular state and the Sharia. The essays in this volume
endeavor to show that debates about justice, in Islam as well, express
an underlying tension between the perception of an order as just on the
one hand, and the feeling of injustice under the same order on the
other. This discussion validates the idea that justice should be
understood as a concept subject to a perpetual reexamination according
to changing times and circumstances.
APA:
Poya, A. (2018). Sharia and Justice: An Ethical, Legal, Political, and Cross-Cultural Approach. Berlin: De Gruyter.
MLA:
Poya, Abbas. Sharia and Justice: An Ethical, Legal, Political, and Cross-Cultural Approach. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
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