The Objectives of Sharia and Objective Interpretation: Origin, Agreement, and Divergence

Abstract

This research is entitled: "The Objectives of Sharia and Objective Interpretation: Origin, Agreement, and Divergence." It discusses the concepts of Objectives and their close relationship to their fundamentalist roots. It then traces the early origins of the two disciplines under study, clarifying the prior and the subsequent, the general and the particular, their evolution over time, and the innovations they have undergone. The research then identifies points of agreement and divergence, convergence and disagreement, and future prospects for the transition to collective and institutional ijtihad, and to its fixed and variable jurisprudence.

The study concluded that both sciences are based on ijtihad and depend on the principles of jurisprudence and are derived from it, and that the objectives of Islamic law are prior and have multiple sources, and that the objectives of the Qur’an relate to beliefs and morals, stories and rulings, and the Sunnahs in the souls and horizons, while the objectives of Islamic law are limited to practical rulings.