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$2.00Imam Al-Shafi’i and the Establishment of the Moderate Ideology
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The book discusses the role of Imam Al-Shafi’i in developing moderate thought in Islam
The concept of “moderation” has become a central concept in Islamic culture since Imam Al-Shafi’i formulated it in the second century AH in an ideological formulation. In this book, Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid presents a new reading that begins with an analysis of the texts that Al-Shafi’i relied on, opposing Al-Shafi’i’s vision of those texts, as they pushed the Arab Islamic mind to rely on the authority of texts “after memory was formulated in the era of documentation, the era of Al-Shafi’i, according to the mechanisms of retrieval and repetition, and other trends: Mu’tazila and rational philosophy turned into marginal trends. Therefore, Dr. Abu Zaid’s reading of the concept of moderation aims not to liberate from the authority of texts alone, but from every authority that hinders human freedom and his right to re-understand and read according to the tools of his era and time.
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