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ajiss-3109	Anjum, Ovamir	Editorial Note: Special Issue: Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa	2022.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1461	47	47	Starting with the familiar history of the maqāṣid (wise purposes or objectives) of Islamic law, Dr. Kamali laments the prolonged marginaliza- tion of maqāṣid by the premodern uṣūl al-fiqh and hails the recent revival of the discourse in the latter part of the twentieth century. Assuming that preservation of wealth is a valid purpose (whose wealth, maqāṣid discourse does not tell us), someone simply refusing to pay one’s loans or other dues to non-Muslims would fulfil this purpose in 4  A M E R i C A N J O U R	cache/ajiss-3109.pdf	txt/ajiss-3109.txt