The legitimacy of modernizing Islamic thought according to Abd al-Majīd Sharfī

Abstract

Through this paper, we aim to discuss the issue of attempting to re-read the Arab-Islamic heritage of one of the most important contemporary Arab and Muslim thinkers, the Tunisian thinker " Abd al-Majīd Sharfī"; Through his books, he tries to provide a new scientific reading of the Islamic heritage by applying the humanities and social sciences approaches to it, with the aim of reaching new scientific results that are consistent with reason and logic, unlike readings that are far from historical and objective truth. Abd al-Majid al-Sharfi sought to modernize Islamic sciences as a whole; especially the science of jurisprudence ‘’Fiqh’’, the science of Principles of Islamic jurisprudence ‘’uṣūl al-fiqh’’, the science of hadith ʻ’ilm al-ḥadīth’’, Science of discourseʿ’Ilm al-Kalām’’, the Science of Tafsir ‘’tafsīr’’ and sciences that came to interpret the Qur’anic texts many years after revelation, and we chose the science of jurisprudence as a model only Because it is the science in which many books have been classified, And because it specializes in laying down provisions that direct human actions according to what is permissible and forbidden, and these provisions must be re-read in accordance with the prevailing law now, because in the end they are nothing but human judgments that were developed in historical circumstances specific to that time