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Revisiting Medinah charter : Towards the realization of Maqasid Al-Shariah for contemporary plural societies
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The Medinah Charter has been studied from various perspectives. Most discourses on the
Medinah Charter revolve around the political dimension. However, the Prophetic actions
of the Medinah Charter need to be analyzed in the light of the Maqasid al-Shariah. This
paper aims to explore the Medinah Charter from a Maqasid perspective taking into
consideration its socio-religious structure. For this purpose, this research identifies some
important Maqasid underlying the Medinah Charter and the Prophetic approach
toward the people of other faiths. This study argues that the Medinah Charter and the
measures taken by the Prophet Muhammad were potential means for materializing
universal higher objectives of the Shariah. Based on descriptive and analytical methods,
this study sheds light on some universal higher objectives of the Shariah in the Charter
such as freedom of faith, peaceful co-existence, and social integrity. All these social
objectives were preserved in Medinan society at a collective level. By analyzing those
universal objectives, this paper establishes their relevance to fostering peaceful coexistence,
freedom of faith, and social integrity between different ethnic-religious
communities of the modern world, especially in Muslim minority societies.
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Date:
2025
Authors:
Ahmad, Khalil
Muhammad, Muneer Kuttiyani
Publisher:
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
