Hamid, Eltigani Abdulqadir. “The Fiqh of Islamic Reform,” Year 5, Issue 17 (Summer 1420 AH/ 1999 CE), Pp. 9-41.

Abstract

Eltigani Hamid’s article treats the relationship between the rearrangement of the intellectual base and change in Muslim society, addressing the phenomenon of internal decay and the phenomenon of the Renaissance that followed. He discusses certain aspects of the negative phenomena in Egyptian and Algerian societies during the European occupation there. He then turns to initiatives of modern Islamic revival, represented in the schools of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, and Abdelhamid Ben Badis. He finds that the process of rereading the Qur’an to find an alternative conceptual system is directly associated with the process of rebuilding the Muslim society. His research focuses on the fundamental differences in resistance to colonialism between the movement of Amir Abdul Qadir in Algeria and the movement of Ahmed Orabi in Egypt and their influence in North Africa and Asia, under principles that call for a return to the Qur’an in order to achieve the “renaissance” and “reform” of the Ummah, as represented in al-Afghani, Abduh, and Ben Badis.