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Making Recommendations based on Revelation and Reason: The Challenge before Justice Saleem Marsoof’s Muslim Personal Law Reforms Committee
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CHULANI KODIKARA on 05/01/2017
In
the current debate about reform of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act
of 1956 (MMDA), those opposed to reform are arguing that all reform must
be consistent with the Shariah – or to be more precise their own interpretation of the Shariah. Moreover, that all reform must be in accordance with the Shafi
school of law. I argue that the making of Muslim law in any given
context is very much a human act of interpretation, and therefore
subjective, selective and creative, albeit based on knowledge of the
sources of law as well as hermeneutics (theory and methods of
interpretation) of law. As Coulson, one of the foremost scholars of
Muslim law, points out: