How Islamic are Islamic banks? A Maqasid Approach- Q & A, 7-10
How Islamic are Islamic banks? A Maqasid Approach Q & A IPSA-Cape Town...
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INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW: Maqasid of harmony with the universal laws, 7-10
Maqasid of harmony with the universal laws Seventh class IPSA-Cape Town...
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INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW: Do we need to ‘de-westernize’ knowledge? Q and A, 6-10
Do we need to ‘de-westernize’ knowledge? Q and A IPSA-Cape Town 2019...
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INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW: The war on concepts & objectives, 6-10
The war on concepts & objectives SIXTH CLASS:INTRO TO FIQH IPSA- CAPE TOWN 2019 This is from the 6th lecture (out of 10, “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course). After we build the Quranic objectives/maqasid and concepts/mafaheem web, how can we realize them in today’s reality on all levels and in all fields of knowledge and action? The answer has to do with the role of the Arabic language as the language of the Islamic identity, and the measures required for Muslims to fight back the “war on concepts and objectives” that the Islamic thought is facing, and the ways to...
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INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC LAW: Maqasid of Quranic structure & eloquence, 5-10
Maqasid of Quranic structure & eloquence Fifth Class:Intro to Fiqh IPSA- Cape Town 2019 This is from the 5th lecture (out of 10), which Dr.Jasser teaches as a “Contemporary Islamic Law” graduate course. He presented here a detailed analysis of the maqasid of the Quranic language; tacit meanings, various readings/qira’aat of the ayaat, Quranic techniques of eloquence and expression, and the maqasid of the Surahs/chapters. The outcome Quranic maqasid list is a large web of highly interconnected meanings that are not amenable to the usual fiqhi hierarchies of...
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