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Hosen, Nadirsyah --- "Collective ijtihad on health issues in Indonesia" [2018] ELECD 675; in Hosen, Nadirsyah (ed), "Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 289

Book Title: Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society

Editor(s): Hosen, Nadirsyah

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781781003053

Section: Chapter 12

Section Title: Collective ijtihad on health issues in Indonesia

Author(s): Hosen, Nadirsyah

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

This chapter provides an example of how Muslim scholars are responding to the issue of modernity. It evaluates collective ijtihad in the Muslim world as a group effort to find answers. This is different to the early formation of Islamic schools of thought (maddhab) when individual scholars interpreted the Holy Books. The chapter provides examples of Indonesian collective fatwa on health issues such as organ transplant, vasectomy and IUDs (Intra-Uterine Devices). It can safely be stated that the institution of collective ijtihad is a viable tool through which a society can adjust itself to internal and external social, political, and economic change.