Volume II of Al-Usūs wal-Munṭalaqāt — The Foundations and Premises of the Jurisprudence of Transitions — delivers the hermeneutical, historical, eschatological, and ethical pillars of one of Islamic scholarship's most ambitious contemporary frameworks. Drawing on classical Islamic jurisprudence, Peircean semiotics, Gadamerian hermeneutics, Weber's sociology of charisma, Piketty's political economy, and resilience science, the four essays in this volume build a complete, self-correcting system for Muslim communities navigating civilizational upheaval.
Essay Five reveals why signs must be read as patterns and categories, never as specific identifications — and what information theory teaches about eschatological uncertainty. Essay Six applies the framework to real history: the late Ottoman Caliphate, the Arab Spring, and the financialization of global economies as prophetically illuminated phenomena. Essay Seven maps the detailed eschatology — the Mahdi, the Dajjāl, the return of Jesus, and Gog and Magog — through narrative theory and phenomenology, showing how the eschatological story functions as a community psychological resource. Essay Eight delivers the ethical destination: Manhaj al-Salāmah and Sunnat al-Mawāqif as virtue-ethics frameworks for standing firm, speaking carefully, and holding community together when the ground is shifting.
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AL-USŪS WAL-MUNṬALAQĀT — EIGHT ANALYTICAL ESSAYS, VOLUME II (MOVEMENTS 5–8)
The Jurisprudence of Transitions ·
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