Sharia and Islamic Jurisprudence: Sunnah, Interpretation and Legal Authority

Which are the legal

Sunnah, those Sunnah that have legal implications in and of

itself, while it's the basis of Sharia, in the same way

that in the Torah or the New Testament, there is the lex

talionis, an eye for an eye. It literally says that.

But

what comes on top of that is everything.

Sharia is scripture, and it is Hadith, but what it

really is, is millennia

of Usul al-Fiqh, the science of Islamic jurisprudence,

Fiqh.

That

doctrine

tells the devout Muslim what abrogation is.

It tells the devout Muslim how to read any particular surah.

The problem that Zudy has, and I'm a great admirer of Zudy's,

and we have all kind of gone back and forth on that.

But the problem he does have

is

if you're going to ask any moderate or academic Muslim who

wants to read those

verses differently than they have been over a thousand years, he

has to figure out a way to,

as it were, replace the ulama, the legal

authorities. It would like, be like me saying,

"I want to interpret the,

the Commerce Clause as it literally says," which is not how it's interpreted.

The only way I could