The Value of Islamic Jurisprudence to the Non-Islamic World

Abstract

An important purpose of this study is to reveal to those outside the world of Islam some of the facets of Islamic jurisprudence which may not otherwise be readily accessible to them. We have already noted that Islam has often had an unfair press in non-Islamic countries, and the same observation applies, unfortunately, even to the world of scholarship. The treatment of matters Islamic even among scholars is often distorted by the same attitudes of cultural and national bias to which the popular media are subject.