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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity

Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran

This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. It is within this broad examination of a living legacy of interpretation that the context for the concretizations of traditional as well as modern Islamic learning, are enclosed.

modernism. Islamic law has never been static. Since unprecedented rapidity of
innovative change is one of the most evident facts of modernity, the tenacity of
traditions are equally important in the sense that religious change and variation
have always been present. While a great deal of uniformity exists at the present
time, none of the uncongenial legal and philosophical systems that Islamic law
was faced with in premodem times can be compared to the encounter with the
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