Tahir ibn Ashur

Muhammad at-Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad at-Tahir ibn Ashur (1296–1393 H/1879–1973 M) adalah seorang Tunisian Maliki ulama, Mufti Besar and later Syaikh al-Islam of Tunisia, and salah satu yang paling penting Islamic thinkers of the abad ke-20. Lahir ke dalam keluarga the illustrious Ibn Ashur ulamaly family, ia belajar at the Universitas Masjid Zaytuna in Tunis and became one of its most terkemuka products.

Ibn Ashur rose to become the rector of Zaytuna University and later Tunisia's Mufti Besar. Ia mengajar generasi-generasi of Tunisian para ulama and adalah dikenal karena both his tradisional grounding in Maliki fikih and his reformist vision for pemikiran Islam and pendidikan.

His most important intellectual contribution adalah his work Maqasid ash-Shari'ah al-Islamiyyah (The Higher Objectives of Islamic Law), which became the most comprehensive modern treatment of the theory of the objectives of hukum Islam (maqasid) — the idea that hukum Islam memiliki overarching purposes (the preservation of religion, life, reason, lineage, and wealth) that should guide legal reasoning. This work established him as the foremost 20th-abad ulama of maqasid theory and made a major contribution to the development of hukum Islam filsafat.

He also mengarang Tafsir at-Tahrir wat-Tanwir (Liberation and Enlightenment), a comprehensive modern tafsir Al-Al-Qur'an in thirty jilid-jilid; Usul an-Nizam al-Ijtima'i fil-Islam on social organization; and numerous other works. He wafat in Tunis in 1973. His Maqasid ash-Shari'ah and his Tafsir adalah his most enduring intellectual legacies.