Hermeneutics of ash-Shāfiʿī

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 Rüdiger Lohlker (University of Vienna)Qur‘anic Hermeneutics of ash-Shāfiʿī 

 Introduction

Discussing hermeneutics used by Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Muṭṭalibī al-Qurashī ash-Shāfiʿī may startwith long eleborations about hermeneutical approaches used throughout Islamic history and onhermeneutics in general. We will beginn at another starting point. Shahab Ahmed in his magisterialwork

What is Islam?

 writes:The determining question, as noted earlier, would seem to be whether the hermeneutical trajectoryadopted in a given circumstance or a given question tends more towards

reading God’s purposefrom Textual sources into the (Seen/Unseen) world or of reading God’s purpose out of the(Seen/Unseen) world into Textual sources. Textual hermeneutics is not merely a focus on readingText, it is also the reluctance to read Text in Pre-Textual mode –

including to read Text non-literally(that is, as other than ‚plain text‘).

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 Esp., in a case of a jurisprudent like ash-Shāfiʿī‘ we will have to think of the wider context ofreading beyond the mental world of jurisprudents and in pre-textual mode:The dominant tendency is still to conceive of Islamic law solely on the terms in which it iselaborated in the discourse of the

fuqah’

-jurisprudents using the dominantly Textualistmethodology of

ul al-fiqh

-jurisprudence that proceeds from scriptural hermeneutics: in otherwords, that which makes Islamic law

 Islamic

 is understood squarely to be the claim of the

fuqah’

- jurisprudents to have derived the law ultimately from the Text of Revelation. But, […]

fuqah’

- jurisprudents lived and thought and worked and wrote in societies of Muslims in which theprotagonists of a variety of other discourses were constantly pitching their own normative claims tovarious registers and loci of truth and meaning back and forth across the social arena.

Full Text:  https://www.academia.edu/42107202/Quranic_Hermeneutics_of_al_Shafii

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