Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur'anic Theory of Human Existential Function...

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Chauki Lazhar

Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture

Towards a Qur'anic Theory of Human Existential Function

Chauki Lazhar

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English

Routledge
08 October 2024

Regional studies; Islam; Islamic theology

Series: Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy

This book explores the reasons for the creation of humanity on Earth from the perspective of ancient and contemporary Muslim thinkers, aiming to lay the outlines of a Qurʾanic theory of human existential function.

The author proceeds from the assumption that, until now, contemporary Islamic scholarship has suffered from the absence of theorisation about a Qurʾanic conception of human existential function (vicegerency), lacking a unified philosophical and epistemological frame of reference. Challenging common perceptions among contemporary Muslim reformists regarding the human existential function, the author examines both classical and contemporary thought as well as conducting a thorough and comprehensive analysis of Qurʾanic passages that ground the theory of vicegerency within a cosmic scheme. Ultimately, a new approach for understanding the human existential function from within the Qurʾanic worldview is proposed. For the first time then, this book offers an integral induction and categorisation of Qurʾanic teleological concepts, combining them within a coherent framework that reveals the outlines of a vicegerency theory and a Qurʾanic worldview.

Suitable for both scholars and laypersons, the book serves as a landmark textbook in the fields of Islamic Philosophy, Theological Anthropology and Qurʾanic Studies.

By: Chauki Lazhar
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9781032372259
ISBN 10: 1032372257
Series: Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Islamic Worldview in the Context of Modern Reformism 3. The Concept of Istikhlāf in Islamic Heritage 4. Vicegerency as Existential Function in Contemporary Reformism 5. The Object of Vicegerency: Identifying Human Existential Function 6. Vicegerency in the Qurʾanic Worldview Conclusion

Chauki Lazhar is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Qatar University. His research interests in the field of Islamic Studies include theological anthropology, Islamic meta-ethics and metaphysics, the epistemology of Islamic sciences, Islamic worldview studies and the methodology of contemporary ethico-religious reasoning (ijtihād). He is the author of, inter alia, Al-Umūma wa al-Unūtha fī al-Islām wa al-Tamyīz Bayn al-Marʾa wa al-Rajul fī al-Aḥkām al-Sharʿiyya [Motherhood, Femininity and Gender Differentiation in Islamic Provisions] (Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2019).