Volume 9 (2023), Edition 2

The terms sharia (šarīʿa) and ‘Islamic law’ are synonymously used both in a general, colloquial sense and in academic literature. The terms do, however, not always coincide. The term sharia refers to the divine origin of rules and norms,...

This article presents the internal structure of Islamic law and legal theory. Following the discourses of scholars since the 20th century, concepts of Islamic legal theory are increasingly coming into focus in order to find new ways and methods in...

German philosopher Ernst Tugendhat demands in one of his more recent texts that philosophical anthropology should replace metaphysics as the foundation of philosophy, excluding Islam from this new anthropological philosophical endeavor because of...

In recent decades, questions of climate change and environmental problems have received increasing attention not only in Germany and Europe, but also globally. This has been accompanied by transnational and societal debates on environmental ethics....

Debates among Muslim religious scholars in the field of Islamic medical ethics are characterized by a broad spectrum of interpretations. This is not surprising, considering that the religious-legal norms and ethical-moral values are entangled in the...

On the occasion of current discussions about property and the social binding of property (Sozialbindung des Eigentums), especially in the context of housing, this paper addresses the question of how the social binding of property can be...