الإجماع و مآزق تجديده عند حسن حنفي

Abstract EN

Hassan Hanafi’s attempt to contribute to the renewal of usul al-Fiqh (sources of Islamic jurisprudence) and to subject the revelation to critical methods has been a highly problematic issue on account of his interpretation of the foundations of jurisprudence.

His misunderstanding is most apparent in his interpretation of the term of ijmaʿ (scholarly consensus) in usul al-Fiqh.

This study takes the term ijmaʿ as an example to discuss the problems of renewing usul al-Fiqh using Hanafi’s approach.

The research scrutinizes Hanafi’s approach to ijmaʿ in light of other texts in uṣūl al–fiqh, in line with to their descriptive and critical methods.

It concludes that Hanafi’s conception of usul al-Fiqh is insufficient to achieve any renewal.

Furthermore, it will be shown that Hanafi sought to develop new terms for issues that the experts of usul al-Fiqh already discussed.

Consequently the "renewal" pursued by Hanafi in usul al-Fiqh, was purely verbal, of little use to experts in usul al-Fiqh.