Open AccessConceptions of the Political in Islamic Thought: Reconciling Legal and Philosophic Approaches to Siyasah
Author(s) -
Tengku Ahmad Hazri
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
islam and civilisational renewal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2041-8728
pISSN - 2041-871X
DOI - 10.52282/icr.v5i2.401
Subject(s) - islam , jurisprudence , politics , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , order (exchange) , political science , law , constitutional economics , epistemology , law and economics , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , economics , theology , statistics , finance
Political societies and states may undergo constitutional transformations. However, if Islamic constitutional jurisprudence is to address adequately the problem of constitutional shifts then both classical and modern reformist juridical approaches to siyasah must be reconciled with the approach of the Muslim philosophers, in order to secure the former’s conceptual coherence when analysing shifts in constitutional structures.