Beyond Maqasid al-Shariah: The Methodological Transcendence of the Concept of Maqasid al-Quran

This paper aims to highlight on a new dawn of Maqasid thought called Maqasid al-Quran which yet to be emerged as an independent Islamic science like its predecessor, the concept of Maqasid alShariah. Being related, yet distinctive, Maqasid al-Quran was treated by some Muslim scholars as a next generation of maqasid thought after Maqasid al-Shariah. A contemporary Islamic jurist Taha Jabir Alwani has categorically mentioned that the journey of Maqasid al-Shariah should continue until it reaches to Maqasid al-Quran which could have a wider scope of the methodological capacity to go beyond Islamic legal paradigm. Hence, to explore the methodological implications of Maqasid al-Quran, this research will review Alwani’s views on the subject. As a result, it could encourage a new thinking of maqasid discourse.