Maqasid al Shariah with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

As always, I would like to thank you all for returning to this page. Your feedback and encouragement are a constant source of inspiration to me. This month I would like to focus on an area that I consider of great significance and one that I have written about frequently in the last year or so. The focus is the alignment of Maqasid al Shariah with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This is a topic that I have commented on several times before in this column and I should like, with your indulgence, to give you the latest thoughts and updates that I have been having in this area after several related meetings in recent days. During the last month or so I have had several discussions with a couple of very prominent and globally recognised scholars....