Public Law Studies Quarterly

Analysis of Contemporary Readings of the Relationship Between Law and Sharia in “Risalah Yek-Kalameh”

Document Type : Article

Authors

Zeynab Mohammadipour 1
Mohammad Javaheri Tehrani 2

1 PhD. Student, Faculty of Law, College of Farabi University of Tehran, Qom, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2019.265880.1825
Abstract
The concept of law, in its modern sense, entered the Iranian intellectual discourse more than two centuries ago, and from the very beginning became a rival to sharia which was the ultimate legal order of Iranian society since the dawn of Islam. Many Iranian scholars tried to resolve the conflicts between the two. One of the most prominent works on this topic is Mirza Yousef Mostashar-Al-Dawlah’s “Risalah Yek-Kalameh”. Reading this book is at once easy and difficult, so much so that there have been many interpretations of the author’s intentions. This study will attempt to critically analyze the three major interpretations of “Risalah Yek-Kalameh”. The results of the study indicate that Mirza Yousef Khan failed to solve the conflict between sharia and law, because he did not understand the exact meaning of those concepts and their limits.

Keywords

sharia
law
Mostashar-Al-Dawlah
Risalah Yek-Kalameh
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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 52, Issue 2
Summer 2022
Summer 2022
Pages 1103-1121

  • Receive Date 18 September 2018
  • Revise Date 04 June 2019
  • Accept Date 18 June 2019

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