Paradigm Shift and Scientific Revolution in the Development of Contemporary Ushul Fiqh

Abstract

The phenomenon of Islamic legal liberalism in various Islamic countries often contradicts established Islamic legal norms. It is this phenomenon which then often causes polemic in the context of Muslim religious and social life. It does not mean to judge whether or not the various forms of Islamic legal liberalism exist. But philosophical things that need to be realized, that Islamic law (fiqh) is a dynamic product of thought that is built from an existing Islamic legal methodology (usul fiqh). On this basis, this study aims to find the paradigm of the development of contemporary ushul fiqh. This type of research is library research. The primary source used in this study is the thought of Wael B. Hallaq about the typology of the renewal of the contemporary ushul fiqh in his book entitled A History of Islamic Legal Theories. The theory used as the analysis theory in this study is the theory of scientific revolution from Thomas S. Kuhn. This study concludes that the stage of paradigm shift and scientific revolution, namely the drastic change from the old paradigm to the new paradigm that aims to answer the problematics that can not be solved by the old paradigm. Where in the context of the development of contemporary ushul fiqh, the normal stage of science can be seen in the development of established methods of classical ushul fiqh, as well as contemporary ushul fikih methods of religious utilitarianism. While the stage of paradigm shift and scientific revolution can be seen in the drastic change of the various classical ushul fikih methods that have been established into various methods of contemporary ushul fiqh, as well as various ushul fiqh methods of religious liberalism.