Critical Discourse The Epistemology of Muhammad Syahrur's Ijtihad
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.28918/jhi.v18i1.2668Abstract
Syahrur's offer toward the sceptical-literalist and modernist-secularist attitudes of the Islamic community is, returning to Inzal (al-Qur'an), God's revelation that delivered to the Prophet. This qualitative study, to analyze the epistemology of Syahrur's ijtihad. The results show Syahrur's thinking about epistemology originates from material nature that is beyond human existence. Syahrur in interpreting the ahkam verses still agreed to maintain the purity of the teachings of the Qur'an, which shalah likulli zaman wa makan. According to Syahrur, the truth was based on three pillars, i.e: revelation, reason, and reality. The combination of the 122 Critical Discourse The Epistemology of ......121- 140. (Asep Suraya Maulana) Vol 18 No 1, Juni 2020 ISSN 1829-7382 (Print) 2502-7719 (Online) three resulted in new and modern Islamic legal knowledge. Syahrur's offer, on the theory of scientific historicity, linguistic hermeneutics and Marxist dialectics, shows an attempt to deconstruct science that has been patented in the application of Islamic law. The difference from the concept of classical ijtihad ushul fiqh with the concept of ijtihad Syahrur, i.e: 1) places ijtihad in a vital position for modern Islamic law; 2) ijtihad only at the stage of justifying or forbidding something; 3) requires scientific achievements and modern knowledge systems; 4) allows to ijtihad all legal texts, even though the ulama see as qath'i; and 5) can be done individually
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Jurnal Hukum Islam use a variety of waivers and licenses that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:
- Open Data Commons Attribution License, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/(default)
- Creative Commons CC-Zero Waiver, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/
Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.