دعوى التجديد الديني الحداثي في الفقه الإسلامي: نظرات تحليلية في فكر محمد شحرور

Abstract

This study discusses the real modernist religious renewal claims in Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh), with the focus on the thought of Muhammad Shahrour and his opinions on the subject of renewal in Islamic jurisprudence, as well as his call for a contemporary reading of heritage. The most important objectives of this study are to investigate the reality of these claims, and to disclose the intellectual deviation in the claim of renewal of Islamic jurisprudence. The focuses of the paper include explaining religious renewal and its divisions, mentioning the scientific rules that regulate the truth of religious renewal. Then explaining the truth of these claims calling for the renewal of Islamic jurisprudence and its relationship to the Darwinian theory of evolution Moreover, this study discusses the truth behind the contemporary reading that Muhammad Shahrour called for using two research methodologies namely; the inductive approach to trace what he has written and delve into what he published about his contemporary reading, and the analytical approach to show the structure of the conceptual framework of Muhammad Shahrour's philosophy, from which he launched his contemporary reading and his call for the renewal of Islamic jurisprudence. One of the most important conclusions of this study is that the reality of Muhammad Shahrour’s claim for renewal differs from the reality of permissible renewal and that his contemporary call is an essentially westernizing call that urges for a revolution against heritage and Islamic regulations which leads to the application of the modernist interpretation of the Holy Quran to reach new outcomes that keep pace with the civilized development according to the western vision, based on the principle of the uniqueness of the creator and the multiplicity of everything else in a continuous process.