Legal Methodology of Eclecticism in Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence: Impediments and Edicts

Abstract

Islam is the only religion with the attribute of universality and ever-ready to regulate the individual and society both at any time in everywhere. It has no obsolete for inexistence of ruling in the Shari ‘ah to deal emerging issues. Veracity of opinions among all Sunni schools, relied just on secondary issues not in fundamental beliefs or otherwise. Mostly difference of views is on the preference of a matter not on the validity and this one is also appraisable for the ‘Ummah’. In fact, all Sunni schools are the branches of the same tree. There must be consistency among their notions not the depiction of contradictions. The most significant method of Islamic Jurisprudence known as ‘Talfiq’ (Eclecticisms) is very effective and implementing to compete the contemporary issues of the society, even in the antique period of Ottoman Empire exercised by the great Scholars during the codification of ‘Al-Majallah al-Ahkam al-Adaliyyah’.