Seyed Abbas Mousavian: Difference between revisions

Islam-centered method uses all Islamic sources instead of being content with Fiqh alone; the Islamic sources includ moral judgments, jurisprudence, divine traditions, and the objectives and principles of Islam. Ghafouri and Mirmoezzi, researchers in Islamic jurisprudence, state that a study of Mousavian’s works shows that he considered ethical principles or divine traditions in constructing an economic system. They cited the article “Religion and Economics” and the article “Introduction the Islamic Economic System” for this calim.<ref>Mirmoezzi and Ghafouri, “The Development of Professor Mousavian’s Scientific Method from the Jurisprudence-Centered Method to the Islam-Centered Method,” p. 58.</ref>

According to these researchers, in this method Mousavian, as in the jurisprudence-centered method, proceeded through two stages in economics: Islamization and Islamic establishment. Islamization means examining and reconstructing the conventional economic model on the basis of all Islamic data, including ethical rulings, jurisprudence, divine traditions, and the objectives and principles of Islam. The Islamic establishment method likewise means presenting a new economic model based on these criteria.<ref>Mirmoezzi and Ghafouri, “The Development of Professor Mousavian’s Scientific Method from the Jurisprudence-Centered Method to the Islam-Centered Method,” p. 59.</ref>

The superiority of the Islam-centered method over the jurisprudence-centered method lies in the fact that jurisprudence does not encompass all Islamic teachings in every respect, because jurisprudential knowledge does not necessarily correspond to the Preserved Tablet and is a conjectural and ijtihadi process. Accordingly, a model concerning financial institutions and instruments may not conflict with jurisprudence but may nevertheless contradict the principal foundations of the Sharia, such as justice, security, and freedom.<ref>Mirmoezzi and Ghafouri, “The Development of Professor Mousavian’s Scientific Method from the Jurisprudence-Centered Method to the Islam-Centered Method,” p. 63.</ref>