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')?

Presenter(s)

Andrew March, Yale University
Mohamad Al-Hakim, York University
Michael Giudice, York University
François Tanguay-Renaud, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

2-5-2010

Keywords

Freedom of religion (Islamic law); Islamic law--Philosophy

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.

Comments

Presented by Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security and Osgoode Hall Law School.

Repository Citation

March, Andrew; Al-Hakim, Mohamad; Giudice, Michael; and Tanguay-Renaud, François, "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). Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series. 28.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/legal-philosophy/28

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