Interpretative Profiles in Islamic Law: Some Controversies between Modernism and Liberal Hermeneutics

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to provide a first overview of the Islamic legal doctrines that seem more oriented in themes such as the support of civil rights movements and the reformation of religious hierarchies and exegetical schools. The main perspectives will be the changes occurring in social practices (politics, family law, everyday life customs) and the approaches based on legal transformations of the civil economic system. Hence, by retracing a longstanding contribution alongside the liberal hermeneutic scholars dating from the emphasis on the Enlightenment statehood to the Marxist influence on the legal sciences, there will be a concluding part of the analysis considering if the different geographical collocation has a role in shaping the evolution of Islamic theologies in the current cultural debate between Eastern and Western jurists.