Musa Bigiyev on the Delegitimization of Slavery in Muslim Law (Based on the Book “Kawa‘id Fiqhiyya”)
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-1-117-134
Abstract
The article examines the example of Musa Jarullah Bigievʼs Ijtihad, which consists in a critical religious and philosophical analysis and deconstruction of the medieval legal foundations of the institution of slavery in Muslim Law. The material presented in the article is based on M. Bigievʼs explanations on this issue, presented by him in 1910 on the pages of the fundamental work “Kawaʼid Fiqhiyya” (“Rules of Fiqh”). Moreover, the article introduces the history of slavery as presented by Bigiev, as well as which verses of the Qurʼan and hadith he cites, acting as an adherent of the fundamental values of Islam, in order to justify the illegitimacy of the institution of slavery. Bigiev considered this phenomenon to be openly contrary to the right of individual personal freedom, a legal concept introduced by him into the conceptual fi eld of Islamic jurisprudence and presented as one of the essential tasks of Sharia. Bigievʼs method of analyzing established legal provisions in order to delegitimize them is an example of deconstruction, ahead of the development and recognition of this concept by modern science in the West and its adoption by thinkers of the Muslim East. The presented material is being introduced into scientifi c circulation for the fi rst time.
About the Author
A. G. Khayrutdinov
Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences; Moscow Islamic Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aidar G. KHAYRUTDINOV, Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Associate Professor; Acting Head, Department of the History of Religions and Public Thought named after Yahya G. Abdullin; Head, Bigievʼs Heritage Research Centre
7, Baturina Str., Kazan, 420014; 12, Kirova Lane, Moscow, 109382
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Khayrutdinov A.G. Musa Bigiyev on the Delegitimization of Slavery in Muslim Law (Based on the Book “Kawa‘id Fiqhiyya”). Islam in the modern world. 2025;21(1):117-134. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-1-117-134
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