The Status of Figh from the Epistemological Point of View: Implications and Consequences

Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) as a powerful technology has a profound effect on the societies in which it is used to, more or less, facilitate their affairs. In the present paper, after a brief overview of the status of fiqh as technology and examining some of the possible ambiguities in this relation, we turn to some of the implications and consequences of “fiqh as a technology”. We try to give an explanation for the relation of fiqh with, and its impact on, issues such as the form of life, ethics, our knowledge of God, and the importance of controlling technologies.