Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges: Traditional Ijtihād and Foundational Ijtihād

The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” pa...

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Main Author: Mavani, Hamid (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 263-284
Further subjects:B applied jurisprudence in Islam
B ijtihād
B Islam and bioethics
B Mohsen Kadivar
B Shi‘i law and legal theory
B Islamic legal reform
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