CONSTRUCTING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASPECT FIQH NUSANTARA

How the choice of experimental organism matters: epistemological reflections on an aspect of biological practice.

Unless we recognize our innate biases in animal model choice, we limit our potential as experimenters. Two biases seem common from my observations. First is the anthropomorphism that we all seem to get from the monkeys in zoos and circuses, coming as it does long before we aspire to be scientists. Second is for the animal or animals with which we worked during our early days in our fields. Both...

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

An Epistemological Study of the Verse Tathir

The verse Tathir is regarded as one of the central verses in proving the infallibility of the Prophet and his future generation`s properties that have long been debated among the Fariqain commentators. The Sunni commentators, without any reasonable proof and only based on the context and etymology of the word al-bait, the house, have viewed all members of Quraysh in the Prophet's House, and in ...

Fiqh Al-waqi & its role in the Islamic awakening

چکیده:بیداری اسلامی زمینه ساز تولد دوباره تمدن اسلامی است. از موانع این بیداری، نگاه سنتی فقه اهل تسنن به مسئله مشروعیت حاکم است. از این منظر حاکم یا به اجماع اهل حل و عقد یا استخلاف حاکم قبل و یا به استیلاء و غلبه مشروعیت می‌یابد و تبعیت و فرمانبرداری از او واجب است؛ حتی اگر فاجر و فاسق باشد. فقه الواقع به عنوان پدیده‌ای نوظهور در حوزه علوم اسلامی اهل سنت و جماعت که فقیه را موظف می‌داند تا برا...

Epistemological status

It is widely held, by social scientists as well as by lay people, that the members of human groups have an "innate" propensity to distinguish between insiders and outsiders, to delineate social boundaries and to develop stereotypes about "the other" in order to sustain and justify these boundaries. If this is indeed the case, ethnicity can be conceived of as being nearly as universal a characte...