Religion of Reason and Jurisprudence of Reality: Debates with the Jurist Ahmad Al-Hassani Al-Baghdadi

The Center for Arab Unity Studies published the book Religion of Reason and Jurisprudence of Reality: Debates with the Jurist Ahmad Al-Hassani Al-Baghdadi by Dr. Abdel Hussein Shaban.

How do we read religious texts? The answer to this question is found in this book by the secular thinker Abdel Hussein Shaban and his debates with the Islamic jurist Ahmad Al-Hassani Al-Baghdadi, which dealt with most of the contentious issues, starting with the divisions of the past and ending with the present and the collapses and repercussions it produced.

The importance of debates is that they open files that still have a mental impact in the present, which is lost in its choices between a text that cannot be changed and a reading of it that took place at a different time and needs re-reading in order to fit with current realities in the era of enlightenment, development and technology. Here lies the central link in the series of debates, condensing into a pivotal point that confirms the severity of a logical-historical question: do we suffice with interpretations, interpretations, narratives, and news transmitted from the past to delineate the identity of the present, or do the necessities of current facts require correcting the angle of view so that it becomes consistent with the needs of a time that differed in its formations and convictions from bygone eras which are isolated from the aspirations of contemporary generations and looking for answers that fit their present circumstances?