What is Sharia? Part 1 of 3: The Ethical Structure | Speaker: Dr. Wael Hallaq

Dr. Wael Hallaq, author of Sharī'a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (Cambridge University Press) delivers a three-part lecture series on “What is Sharia?” The series explores three aspects of the Sharia that shed light on the fields of knowledge and practice from which comparative and critical
insights are drawn. This is an exercise in developing comparative law-cum-culture into a critique of modern modes of being.

The first lecture attempts to identify the main features of the relationship between law and ethics in Islam, cast from the perspective of a comparison with modern law. Central problems of moral philosophy as well as conceptual genealogy are utilized to explore the structural interconnections within the
Islamic ethico-legal system that differentiates itself from, and marks it as a contrast to modern law.