‘Violence in Sharīʿa and its Contemporary Implications’

AMI hosted its 5th Annual Contemporary Fiqhi Issues workshop on ‘Violence in Sharīʿa and its Contemporary Implications’ between 6th – 7th July 2017. Bringing together a host of international scholars and specialists, the workshop was a unique platform to facilitate scholarship directly addressing questions surrounding “violence in Sharī ͑a and its contemporary implications”.

A summary of the workshop proposal read; ”The Muslim juristic fiqhī discourse has been framed historically as concerned with preserving social order, through offering a framework seeking to regulate the lives of humankind by inferring orthopraxic precepts attempting to capture the judgment of God in any given circumstance. The remit of this framework includes regulations for the sanction of, and limits to, violence in all its forms. Recent years have seen increasing challenges to historically inferred positions, alongside continued attempts to understand precepts afresh, on issues as wide ranging as domestic violence, criminal law and the ethics of war. This workshop seeks to explore justifications, challenges and emerging responses to questions regarding attempts to apply any such regulation of violence, whether that violence be collective, interpersonal or self-directed.”

The workshop benefited by the attendance of international research specialists from various educational institutes from around the UK and the globe, students and faculty of the Al-Mahdi Institute and other Institutions alike, as well as interested members of the public. Each speaker presented for around twenty minutes followed by a very critical and open question and answer session.

The participants who presented their findings at the workshop were;