Idris Nassery is postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.Rumee Ahmed is associate dean of arts and associate professor of Islamic law at the University of British Columbia.Muna Tatari is assistant professor of Islamic systematic theology in the Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Paderborn.

• Editor’s IntroductionPart I: Promises1. Goals and Purposes Maqa?id al-Shari?ah: Methodological Perspectives Mohammad Hashim Kamali2. Realising Maqa?id in the Shari?ahJasser Auda3. Freedom of Religion in the Age of Multi-Religious Societies with Special Reference to Maqa?id al-Shari?ahMuhammad Khalid Masud4. The Inviolability of Human Dignity: A Maqa?idi PerspectiveIdris Nassery5. Qur’an, Sunnah, Maqa?id and the Religious Other: The Ideas of Mu?ammad Sha?rur Adis Duderija6. Ibn ?A¯shu¯r’s Interpretation of the Purposes of the Law (Maqa¯s?id al-Shari¯?ah): An Islamic Modernist Approach to Legal ChangeFelicitas Opwis7. Maqa?id al-Shari?ah in Islamic Contracts: A Study of Current Practices of Islamic Finance in Light of Islamic Legal MaximsYounes SoualhiPart II: Challenges 8. Reason and Revelation: A Meaningful Contribution to Contemporary Ethical Debates in a Secular Context Muna Tatari9. The Hermeneutical Approach of Sha?ibi on the Basis of the Maqa?id Definition of

The Objectives of Islamic Law is an excellent collection of essays on the increasingly popular subject of maqasid al-shari’ah, including several that are written by world-renowned experts in the field. With its multi-perspectival and fresh treatments of many maqasid-related themes, this book is highly recommended reading, especially for those interested in deepening their understanding of an alternative view—the maqasid approach—of the meaning, place, and role of the Sharia in contemporary Islam that now has growing appeal among its intellectual circles.