Abstract:Islamic law is actually an ethical regime but has not received a paradigmatic and epistemic shift in centuries. Moosa argues that in order to fulfill its role as ethics several changes are required which he advocated

Ebrahim E. I. Moosa is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.His Major Research Interests are:Historical Studies (law, moral philosophy, juristic theology– medieval studies, with special reference to al-Ghazali; Qur’anic exegesis and hermeneutics), Muslim Intellectual Traditions of South Asia (Madrasas of India and Pakistan; intellectual trends in Deoband school), Muslim Ethics (medical ethics and bioethie aucs, Muslim family law, Islam and constitutional law; modern Islamic law), Critical Thought (law and identity; religion and modernity, with special attention to human rights and pluralism).He is the author of "What is a Madrasa?", University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.