Basic principles of natural law in mu’tazilah: Sources of natural-legal ethics Cover Image

Osnove prirodnog prava kod mu’tazilah: Izvori prirodno-pravne etike
Basic principles of natural law in mu’tazilah: Sources of natural-legal ethics

Author(s): Husein Kavazović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Islam studies
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: reason and revelation; free will; human work; God’s justice; natural-legal qualification; corrective and distributive justice;

Summary/Abstract: For mu’tazilah man is primarily an active being, who creates his own deeds. His active power is based on reason, free will and freedom of choice. If we also take into account their teaching about man’s responsibilities according to their human potential, which is almost universally accepted in the Shari’a law science, it is possible at least somehow to see the scope of their influence on the development of natural law in the early period of the Muslims. On these foundations, a building of legal ethics has been built, which forms the basis of their legal methodology (uṣūl al-fiqh). In this paper, the goal is to examine the reaching of the mu’tazilah in their discussions, given the available literature that is at our disposal and which we will use.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2018
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 95-126
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Bosnian