KARAKTERISTIK PEMIKIRAN USUL AL-FIQH IMAM AL-GHAZALI DALAM KITAB AL-MUSTASFA MIN ‘ILM AL-USUL
Abstract
Imam al-Ghazali is a writer and thinker encyclopedic. The work of al- Ghazali covers a wide range of scientific branches of Islam. Theology, philosophy, tasawwuf and jurisprudence (fiqh). Al-Ghazali describes the scientific conception of usulal-fiqh, including definition of usul al-fiqh. Its position in the structure and scope os Islamic scholarship. Al-Ghazali defines the usul al-fiqh as a science that examines the sources (orgins) law, the terms of validity and model, structure and method of oppointment to the law. Usul al-fiqh as defined is a noble thought is a science because it has the potential of combining reason and revelation. Discipline is explicitly different from the science of kalam (theology) which is “kulli” an Islamic science that is particular, because it is concerted is a discussion on the legal arguments of personality. It’s as tafsir, hadith, and tasawwuf. In hierarchic usulalfiqh under the umbrella of theology.
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