Tawhid and Shari'ah A Transdisciplinary Methodological Enquiry

This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur’anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta’wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur’anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah. Masudul Alam Choudhury brings about a serious criticism of the traditional understanding of Shari’ah as Islamic law contrary to the holistic socio-scientific worldview of the unity of knowledge arising from Tawhid as the law. A bold repudiation of the Islamic traditional understanding and the school of theocracy, Choudhury’s critique is in full consonance with the Qur’an and Sunnah. It is critical of the sectarian (madhab) conception of relational independence of facts. Thus the non-creative outlook of Shari’ah contrasts with universality and uniqueness of Tawhid as the analytically established law explaining the monotheistic organic unity of being and becoming in ‘everything’. This wide and strict methodological development of the Tawhidi worldview is articulated in this work. The only way that Tawhid and Shari'ah can converge as law is in terms of developing the Tawhidi methodology, purpose and objective of the universal and unique law in consonance with the ontology of Tawhid. Such a convergence in the primal ontological sense of Tawhid is termed as maqasid as-shari'ah al-Tawhid.

CHAPTER 1:        A CRITIQUE OF SHARI’AH PERSPECTIVES CONTRA TAWHID AS

                                LAW: TERMINOLOGIES

CHAPTER 2:        INTRODUCTION: TAWHID CONTRA SHARI’AH IN SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM                                      

                                WORLDVIEW

CHAPTER 5: TAWHID AS LAW CONTRA ‘SHARI’AH-COMPLIANCE’ IN

                                MALAYSIAN ADVISORY COMMISSION

                                THE LEGAL COMMERCIAL REPORT OF ISRA

CHAPTER 7: CASTING MAQASID AS-SHARI’AH IN TAWHIDI

                                METHODOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW

CHAPTER 8: THE ONTOLOGY OF TAWHID AS THE LAWAPPLIED TO SPECIFIC

                                ISSUES

CHAPTER 9: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF SYMBIOTIC

                                AGGREGATION AND PARTICIPATORY DYNAMICS IN

                                TAWHIDI EPISTEMOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW OF UNITY

                                OF KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER 10: CONSCIOUS TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN

THE LIGHT OF TAWHID: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, FINTECH, AND OTHER

CHAPTER 11: ENDOGENOUS MONETARY TRANSMISSION IN ISLAMIC

                                FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

CHAPTER 12: CONCLUSION WITH AN EXTENSION TO TAWHID AND SHARI’AH

                                IN ISLAMIC BANKING PARADIGM

Masudul Alam Choudhury is International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia (IEF).