Re-envisioning Islamic Scholarship
Maqasid Methodology as a New Approach
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Name
Jasser Auda
Country
Egypt
Biography
Professor Jasser Auda is the President of Maqasid Institute Global, a think tank based in the USA, UK, Malaysia and Indonesia, and has educational and research programs in a number of countries. He is a member of the Fiqh Council of North America and the European Council for Fatwa, and a fellow at the Fiqh Academy of India. He has a PhD in the philosophy of Islamic law from the University of Wales, UK, and a PhD in systems analysis from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Early in his life, he memorised the Quran and studied at the Study Circles of Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. He worked previously as a professor at the universities of Waterloo, Carleton, and Ryerson in Canada; Alexandria in Egypt; International Peace in South Africa; Islamic University in Sanjaq, Qatar; the Faculty of Islamic Studies, American University of Sharjah in the UAE; and University of Bahrain. He lectured on Islam and its law in dozens of countries and authored 25 books in Arabic and English, some of which have been translated into 25 languages.
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Title
Re-envisioning Islamic Scholarship
Format(s)
Paperback
Edition
1st
Pages
284
ISBN
9781800119772
Dimensions
153x234mm
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