ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the leadership’s perspective on the Sunni fiqh [Law and Jurisprudence], and aims at understanding the nature, purpose and origins of the reformist leadership, and to clarify the political behaviour of the group. The author discusses certain Sunni juristic principles in discourses by the reformist leadership: the meaning of fiqh, the sources of fiqh and the significance of fiqh. A discussion is devoted to fiqh al-siyasa al-shar‘iyah [Islamic Political Jurisprudence] and its related elements, and to the Islamic principle of al-tawhid [monotheism] and its political implementation. The author does not cover the view of each of the three reformist leaders on every subject, but al-Hawali, al-Oudah and al-Omar see themselves as one unit, and the author must assume that the view of one represents all three scholars.
