Foreword v
1. WHAT IS MAQ®ßID? 1
• The Levels of ‘Why?’ 1
• ‘Maq¥|id’ and ‘Ma|¥li^’ 3
• Dimensions of Maq¥|id 4
• Al-Maq¥|id in the Companions’ Ijtihad 11
• Early Theories of Maq¥|id 14
ii. THE ‘IMAMS OF MAQ®ßID’
(FIFTH TO EIGHTH ISLAMIC CENTURIES) 17
• Imam al-JuwaynÏ and ‘Public Needs’ 18
• Imam al-Ghaz¥lÏ and ‘Order of Necessities’ 18
• Al-¢Izz Ibn ¢Abd al-Sal¥m and ‘Wisdoms Behind the Rules’ 19
• Imam al-Qar¥fÏ and ‘Classification of the Prophetic Actions’ 20
• Imam Ibn al-Qayyim and ‘What Shari¢ah is all About’ 20
• Imam al-Sh¥~ibÏ and ‘Maq¥|id as Fundamentals’ 21
iii.MAQ®ßID FOR CURRENT ISLAMIC RENEWAL 22
• Maq¥|id as a Project for ‘Development’ and ‘Human Rights’ 23
• Maq¥|id as Basis for New Ijtihad 27
• Differentiating between Means and Ends 32
• Maq¥|id and Thematic Interpretation of the Qur’an 35
• Interpretation of the Prophetic Intents 36

 Book Maqasid alShariah : A Beginner’s Guide author :
Current applications _or rather, misapplications_ of Islamic law are reductionist rather than holistic, literal rather than moral, onedimensional rather than multidimensional, binary rather than multivalued, deconstructionist rather than reconstructionist, and causal rather than teleological. There is lack of consideration and functionality of the overall purposes and underlying principles of the Islamic law as a whole. ...