Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

The Renewal of Islamic Law; Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi’i International

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Acknowledgments
• Note on transliteration and dates
• Italic and capitals
• Abbreviations
• Dates
• General introduction: The law in the Islamic Renaissance and the role of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr
• Law as Lingua Franca
• Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr: a bio-bibliographical presentation
• The political context
• PART I: Islamic law and the constitution
• Introduction to Part I
• 1- Archetypes of Shi’i law
• The relevance of the Usuli/ Akhbari controversy
• Akhbaris and Usulis: the differences
• Absolute rapprochement
• Conclusion: The significance of the controversy
• Shi’i law colleges, traditional curriculum and new concerns
• An early episode: when did Sadr stop imitating?
• Legal studies in Najaf, or how one becomes a mujtahid
• Study cycles
• The’diploma’
• The structure of civil society
• Shi’i internationalism
• ‘Reputation’ and the new concerns
• The challenge to the law curriculum
• Relevance to the present
• A late episode: Sadr and the exchange of letters with Khumaini in 1979-80, or’who is the most learned jurist?’
• Conclusion: the Renaissance and the marjaiyyaa
• 2- On the origins of the Iranian constitution: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr’s 1979 treatises
• Introduction: on wilayat al-faqih
• Stage 1: reading the Qur’an constitutionally
• Stage 2 : the philosophical perspective
• Stage 3: proposing a constitution for Iran
• The two-tier separation of powers
• Prerogatives of the marja’ jrahbar
• Internal structure and historical legitimisation
• 3- The first decade of the Iranian constitution: problems of the least dangerous branch
• The jurists in the constitution
• The Council of Guardians between legislature and executive
• The jurist in the Iranian constitution: comparative perspectives
• The January debate and its aftermath
• Islamic law constrained
• Towards the demise of the Council of Guardians
• The final stage
• Epilogue: the opening of a new constitutional decade
• PART II: Islamic law,’Islamic economics’ and the interest-free bank
• Introduction to Part II
• 4- Law and the discovery of’Islamic economics’
• Iqtisaduna, an expose
• Principles and method
• Principles of Islamic economics
• ‘Islamic economics as part of a larger system’
• The status of religion in the economy: subjective impulse v. social interests
• ‘Islamic economics is not a science’
• The central economic problem
• Labour and need
• The method of Iqtisaduna: law and economics
• Distribution and the factors of production
• Factor one. Land
• A: Land historically determined
• AI: Land of conquest
• AIa: Man-made prosperous land: public property
• Alb: Dead land at the time of the conquest: state property
• AIc: Naturally prosperous land
• A2: Land of persuasion
• A3: Land of agreement
• B: The requirement of constant exploitation and the theory of land ownership
• A general theory can now be sketched
• Factor two. Minerals
• Factors three and four. Water and other natural resources
• Conclusion: The general theory of distribution before production
• Distribution and justice
• A: Distribution after production
• The superstructure -What the fuqaha have to say
• B: Production and the role of the state
• Iqtisaduna, Perspectives
• Iqtisaduna in the literature
• Theory and practice: Iqtisaduna, land reform and state intervention in Iran
• 5- Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr and Islamic banking
• Iqtisaduna on riba and Islamic economics
• Riba in al-Bank al-la Ribawi fil-Islam
• An Islamic bank in an adverse economic environment
• The interest-free bank: introductory remarks
• The interest-free bank between depositors and investors
• A The regime of term (fixed) deposits
• B Profit and the Islamic bank
• C The regime of mobile deposits (IFB 65-8)
• The interest-free bank’s activities
• A: Deposits, loans, and the compensation theory
• B: The cheque as transaction
• C: Theory of deposits
• D: Other transactions
• First category: Services to customers
• Second category: loans and facilities
• Third category: purchase of commercial papers
• Banks in an Islamic environment
• Conclusion: new financial horizons for the sharfa
• Epilogue: the economics of lawyers and historians
• Conclusion: The costs of renewal
• Notes
• The law in the Islamic Renaissance and the role of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr
• Introduction to Part I
• 5’ Dossier’, in Cahiers de P Orient, 1988, quoted this volume, General introduction, n. 34-1- Archetypes of Shi’i law
• 2- On the origins of the Iranian constitution: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr’s 1979 treatises
• 3- The first decade of the Iranian constitution: problems of the least dangerous branch
• Introduction to Part II
• 4- Law and the discovery of’Islamic economics’
• 5- Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr and Islamic banking
• Bibliography
• Books and Pamphlets
• Articles