Introduction
Natural law proposes to traverse boundaries set up by unique legal epistemologies. In an attempt to do so, natural law presents an opportunity for delineating a depolarizing common ground for normally incompatible and competing legal theories.
To characterize the dynamic when concepts of natural law appeared within the deliberations of legal theoreticians of the Muslim traditions, this chapter shall attempt to chart those ideas that presented in Islamic legal theories when they interacted with concepts of natural law. It shall consider at the intellectual challenges this dynamic produced and the legal theories that emerged.In terms of the organization of the chapter, it begins with the story of a boy who, to his surprise, finds himself marooned on an island. The boy attempts, based on first principles, to arrive at a formulation of law and a theory of being in the cosmos. For the second part, the chapter charts those ideas that came into being within Islamic legal traditions — from their formative period to contemporary times — that relate to natural law. The third and final part of the chapter considers how these deliberations came to form the political heritage that has articulated itself in parts of our world today.
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