Taqlid dan Ijtihad dalam Lintasan Sejarah Perkembangan Hukum Islam
Change is a necessity, which must be addressed by Islamic law in the form of ijtihad. However, it is in this condition that the attitude of taqlid arises which results in stagnation. This paper tries to find a comprehensive understanding of "taqlid and ijtihad" from a historical perspective or historical trajectory of Islamic legal thought. At the end of this paper, it was concluded that the stagnation of Islamic law was due to: (1) a wider territory of Islamic countries, (2) divisions in the Islamic government, (3) assumptions that Islamic Laws were firmly codified, and (4) the haphazard emergence of fatwa-giving groups. In response to this stagnation, the contemporary Muslim thinkers promote the re-actualization of Islamic teachings and the reinterpretation of existing nash in the hope that a more conclusive legal judgment can be obtained (able to answer the challenges of the times), to tacle with a variety of the emergence of actual problems that require legitimacy from Islamic law.