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7 - Next generation fiqh?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2009

R. Michael Feener
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National University of Singapore
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Laws … are not merely something external for us, as are sensible objects, so that we can leave them behind or pass them by; rather, in their externality, they also ought to have, for us subjectively, an essential, subjectively binding power. When we grasp or recognize the law, when we find it rational that crime should be punished, this is not because law is positive, but rather because it has an essential status for us.

G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

The chapters preceding this one have included relatively detailed discussions of the written work of a limited number of modern Indonesian thinkers. This final chapter, however, will be constructed somewhat differently. Rather than in-depth treatments of a handful of individuals, these last pages will briefly present an introduction to a broader range of materials from some of the many new voices that are just beginning to emerge in Indonesian public discussions of Islam, law, and society at the turn of the twenty-first century. Many of them are still quite young, and thus it is impossible to give a full accounting of the contributions that they may eventually make to Islamic thought and Indonesian culture. Rather, the aim here is to present an overview of the diversity of contemporary Indonesian Islamic thought in order to indicate at least some of the different directions in which conversations have been carried by a new generation of scholars and activists, working in the post-Suharto era.

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Print publication year: 2007

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  • Next generation fiqh?
  • R. Michael Feener, National University of Singapore
  • Book: Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia
  • Online publication: 29 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495540.009
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  • R. Michael Feener, National University of Singapore
  • Book: Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495540.009
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  • Next generation fiqh?
  • R. Michael Feener, National University of Singapore
  • Book: Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia
  • Online publication: 29 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495540.009
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