Fiqh al-aqalliyyat and its place into Islamic law

In: Orient: deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 56-63

Abstract

"Besides the well known attempts of modernizing Islam through theology there is a wide field of approaches which are intending to integrate modernity into Islam. Those approaches with many different names are based on the fiqh and can be categorized into two groups under the labels fiqh al-nawazil and fiqh al-aqalliyyat. The paper intends to explain the similitudes and the differences between both fiqh and their relation to the classical fiqh. Further it intends to show how far the fiqh approach can succeed in modernizing Islam." (author's abstract)