For and against Drinking in the Sharī‘a

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  • シャリーアにおける飲酒の是非
  • シャリーアにおける飲酒の是非 : イスラーム的規範の多元性
  • シャリーア ニ オケル インシュ ノ ゼヒ : イスラームテキ キハン ノ タゲンセイ
  • Pluralism and the Islamic Norm
  • イスラーム的規範の多元性

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<p>Today the prohibition of alcohol is well associated with Islamic belief. In fact, the ban of alcohol is politically the easiest and most appealing way to “Islamize” a Muslim country. Paradoxically, however, in many such countries alcoholic beverages are consumed, sometimes even produced and exported. Rather than disrespect of religious norms, the pluralism of the Sharia (Islamic law) itself would more properly explain this phenomenon.</p><p>The following points are made: The Qur'ān, the divine scripture according to Islamic belief, prohibits only the drinking of wine (khamr). The historical reasons, as well as the nature of this prohibition, remain ambiguous. Even while a total alcohol ban program pushed forward by the Traditionalists (aṣḥāb al-ḥadīth), who thereby sought to realize an Islamic ideal (in their view), found its way into the mainstream of Sunnī Jurisprudence, the Ḥanafī doctrine that tolerates drinking modest amounts of liquors other than wine also was included as a part of the Sharia. Moreover, the Muslim scholars of classical periods, Ḥanafī or not, proved to be less zealous than modern Islamists in enforcing the severe ḥadd punishment (eighty or forty lashes) for drinking.</p>

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