Pentafsiran hukum Mahmoud Mohamed Taha

The legal interpretation of Mahmoud Mohamed Taha

Abstract

The paper examines the political and legal ideas of Al-Ustaz Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909-1985), discussing his role in espousing religious reform and civil liberty and his vocation of law and syariah renewal. This was encapsulated in his book The Second Message of Islam reflecting his ideal for change and the context of his struggle to modernize Islam and consolidate a modern, egalitarian, democratic and liberal Muslim polity. The paper also highlighted the political development of the 20^th century Sudan with the establishment of Republican Brothers (Ikhwan al-Jumhuriyyin), or New Islamic Mission in 1945 as political instrument to challenge the corrupt regime of Jaafar al-Numeyri defying its dominant imperialist and monarchist rule. The study is based on qualitative framework, in the form of scriptural and content analysis and documentative technique. It make use of normative and philosophical inquiry to analyze relevant data that were collectively derived from primary and secondary sources and descriptively and historically analyzed. The finding shows that Taha embodied significant philosophical and mystical aspiration designed to realized fundamental ideal of reform and social justice in Sudan that anticipate an open, egalitarian, free and progressive society. The underlying goal was to advocate universal Islamic worldview as interpreted through his works that bring an informed philosophical and religious doctrine and postulate embodying substantive spiritual and moral ideal and intrinsic religious and humanistic value of Islam.