The purpose of this study is to describe contemporary Islamic legal thought of Muhammad Syahrur with the limit theory (hudūd) in re-actualizing Islamic law and then correlated with the development of Islamic law in Indonesia. This research method used a literature approach that was still relevant to the reform of Islamic law in Indonesia based on Syahrur’s perspective. The result of literature study already showed that the re-actualizing of Islamic law with Syahrur’s linguistic approach in studying the Qur’an has been highly dependent on the socio-cultural context. Syahrur considered the need for reinterpretation of the Qur’anic texts in synchronizing the texts with the reality of society whenever and wherever. The limit theory of Syahrur h...