1st Edition
Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture Towards a Qur'anic Theory of Human Existential Function
By Chauki Lazhar
Copyright 2023
284 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
284 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the reasons for the creation of humanity on Earth from the perspective of ancient and contemporary Muslim thinkers, aiming to lay the outlines of a Qurʾanic theory of human existential function.
The author proceeds from the assumption that, until now, contemporary Islamic scholarship has suffered from the absence of theorisation about a Qurʾanic conception of human... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Islamic Worldview in the Context of Modern Reformism 3. The Concept of Istikhlāf in Islamic Heritage 4. Vicegerency as Existential Function in Contemporary Reformism 5. The Object of Vicegerency: Identifying Human Existential Function 6. Vicegerency in the Qurʾanic Worldview Conclusion
Biography
Chauki Lazhar is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar University. His research interests in the field of Islamic Studies include theological anthropology, Islamic meta-ethics and metaphysics, the epistemology of Islamic sciences, Islamic worldview studies and the methodology of contemporary ethico-religious reasoning (ijtihād). He is the author of, inter alia, Al-Umūma wa al-Unūtha fī al-Islām wa al-Tamyīz Bayn al-Marʾa wa al-Rajul fī al-Aḥkām al-Sharʿiyya [Motherhood, Femininity and Gender Differentiation in Islamic Provisions] (Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2019).
