Probing The Islamic Secular by Professor Sherman Jackson

Professor Sherman Jackson shares his expertise at a public lecture. Jackson’s talk is titled ‘Probing the Islamic Secular: Preliminary Legal, Political, and Theological Implications’.

[@zeeshanmahmood8465]

Don’t know many better than Jackson. May Allah extend his life so we can continue to be graced by his scholarship

[@muradhoury9562]

Ameen

[@issasuwedi8082]

A very deep and highly enlightening presentation ! Thank you for your tireless work, Professor Sherman.

[@mostafasamy9264]

Amazing lecture confirms the reading of history of Muslim states before the 20th century where the executive power didn't have to counsel the scholars on every decision and dictated it's administrative law separately and that's what the sheikh-ul-islam of the ottoman state Ebussuud Efendi tried to explain where the sultanic law and religious law coexisted simultaneously

[@sofbash]

Perhaps the "ubiquitous adjudicative divine gaze" could mean the "maqasid al shariah" (the overall purposes of the shariah) and/or the "qawa'id al fiqiyyah" (the maxims of fiqh) as these are general precepts that would cover all spheres of life,
e.g., the protection of life, mind, religion, family, etc, (from the maqasid)
or that "harm should be removed", etc (from the maxims)

[@a.hassan8922]

What a valuable lecture.

[@andysandy8823]

If we are living under capitalism how does the devine gaze deal with absolute pursuit of capital and power ????

[@AshrafAsh7]

2:14

[@HussainFahmy]

*_Islamic Secular is an oxymoron, no matter how secular is defined/spun._*

[@AKHTIVEANDTHRUSTED]

Interesting take