Islamic Horizons, May 1st, 2007
How is Islamic law supposed to serve the average Muslim today, or the global Muslim community for that matter; or even the world at large? Answers to such questions are rarely addressed clearly by Muslims themselves, except perhaps as part of some discussion on particular legal issues besetting the community at any given time. But whereas the discussions that Muslims now engage in may well be issue driven, the underlying premises of their arguments clearly show efforts to impute new objectives to the law. To cite the most recent moon sighting controversy: while responses to ISNA's ruling went ...
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