Video
Islamic Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Secular Positive Law: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient for the Islamic Legal Maqsad ('Ultimate Objective') of Hifz Al-Din ('Preserving Religion')?
Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
2-5-2010
Keywords
- Freedom of religion (Islamic law),
- Islamic law--Philosophy
Disciplines
Abstract
Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, examines some treatments of the meaning and extension of the Islamic legal purpose (maqad) of protecting religion (hifz al-din), with an eye towards Islamic legal theorists’ explicit or implicit encounter with modern liberal and secularist understandings of what it means to “protect religion.”
Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim, York University, Philosophy.
Citation Information
Andrew March, Mohamad Al-Hakim, Michael Giudice and François Tanguay-Renaud. "Islamic Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Secular Positive Law: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient for the Islamic Legal Maqsad ('Ultimate Objective') of Hifz Al-Din ('Preserving Religion')?" (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/francois_tanguay-renaud/36/
Presented by Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security and Osgoode Hall Law School.