This study is intended to answer the questions: 1) What is the essence of Protestant ethic assumed to underlie the spirit of capitalism, 2) How is the historical background of Max Weber's life, 3) How is the comparison between Weber's thought on that matter and that of Islamic rationalist. The result indicated that rationalistic doctrine brought by Protestant has great influence on the social d…
al Shafi'i represents the first jurist who conducted a syntheses between systematic ratio and revelation as the source of Islamic jurisprudence.In his ground-breaking work, al Risalah, while pushing the so-called traditionalists to accept aspects of rationality such as qiyas as a basis for argumentation. At the time of its emergence, however, this Shafi'i's syntheses appearred to be not quite a…