Islamic Law and Reform

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter surveys Islamic legal reform, exploring its theoretical terrain and its practical formulations in state law. Traditional, revivalist and modernist sensibilities regularly critique established legal norms and culture, yet propose distinct agendas of reform. In the early twentieth century, the Egyptian Rashīd Riḍā revived the theories of maṣlaḥa formulated by premodern legal theorists such as the Andalusian al-Shāṭibī. The latter’s account of maṣlaḥa was appropriated as a modality of legal reform in both modernist and revivalist circles. Riḍā’s reappropriation of premodern techniques of legal reasoning and philosophy to bring about legal reform was foreshadowed in the works of earlier reformists such as Shah Waliullah of Delhi and al-Shawkānī of Yemen, whose contributions in disciplines such as ḥadīth commentary, exegesis and uṣūl al-fiqh spurred reformist movements and reconfigured sectarian divisions. Reconfigurations of uṣūl also played a significant role in Shīæī legal reform. Alongside these theoretical reformulations, state practice in the colonial and post-colonial periods has proved to be a major and radical source of Islamic legal reform.
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Authors Abdul Rahman Mustafa
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.2
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.2
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