RISE Islamic Studies | Review of Islamic Studies and Endeavors
RISE Islamic Studies | Review of Islamic Studies and Endeavors
The 52nd issue of the peer-reviewed quarterly journal Islam and Social Studies (affiliated with the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy) has been published in the fields of social theorizing, comparative studies of religion and society, and empirical sociology, and is now available to scholars and researchers. Islam and Social Studies, under the proprietorship of the […]
This article explores the profound and inseparable relationship between Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and societal development. The author argues that the traditional authoritative sources of Islamic law—the Qur’an, Sunnah, reason, and consensus—possess the complete epistemic capacity required to formulate a comprehensive “Progress Model.” By integrating the higher objectives of Islamic law (maqāṣid al-sharī‘a) with societal administration, the text demonstrates that authentic progress must be rooted in jurisprudential foundations, and conversely, dynamic jurisprudence is inherently progressive.
An analysis of the Kantian epistemological shift from objective “illuminating” reason to subjective, self-founded reason. This piece explores the famous “spectacles” analogy, the emergence of structural skepticism, the impossibility of knowing the noumenon, and how Kant fundamentally transformed metaphysics into epistemology.
