The Scope and Methodology of Social Jurisprudence

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor at Islamic Culture and Thought Institute, Qom, Iran.

2 Professor at the higher levels of Islamic Seminary of Qom, Researcher at Institute of Fiqh Nezam, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

It is necessary for social jurisprudence to have a coherent intellectual system, since we are facing various needs and questions in the field of government and Islamic society today. Ignoring jurisprudential organization in this arena will make jurisprudence passive in the new world, subject to existing structures and strategies. In this paper, through organizing the issues, predicates, approaches, and ijtihad methods of social jurisprudence, an attempt has been made to give a proper discipline to this effective part of the jurisprudence. Accordingly, the organization of social jurisprudence in the field of scope and methodology and the process of forming social jurisprudence based on the mandatory-ijtihad model and the relation of principles, goals, social principles and Islamic social sciences with the jurisprudence of society and the jurisprudence of the social system of Islam have been explained. Some of the most important features of an ideal social jurisprudence are, development in the subject in the sense of the obligation of society, government, and history in religious discourses, development in judgment in the sense of the generality of the rulings in relation to behaviors, strategies and structures along with reforming governmental approach to jurisprudence in the sense of interest of Islam and Muslims, and finally explaining a mandatory-ijtihad model to discover the social rulings of Islam in its various behavioral, strategic, and structural aspects.

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  • Receive Date: 22 January 2020
  • Revise Date: 31 May 2020
  • Accept Date: 17 May 2020

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