oa Justice: Essence and Architectonics

Prof. Robert Crane starts from the grandiose assumption that the Arab Spring may have permanent significance by popularizing a long building paradigm shift from the increasingly bankrupt search for stability through material power as an end in itself toward an amorphous search for justice, if only because the old paradigm legitimized what increasingly has been felt to be a rapidly growing accumulation of injustices. The concern for Justice is at the heart of Islam and in the second part, the author proposes an outline of the universal principles of normative Islamic jurisprudence, known as the maqasid al shari'ah.