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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Usul al-fiqh"”.
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Linguistic principles in Usul al-fiqh and their effect on legal reasoning in Islamic law
This present study deals with the linguistic principles that are used in the process of legal reasoning in Islamic law. These linguistic principles represent an important branch of the science of usu1 al-fiqh on its part represents the theoretical basis for the Shari ah and indisputable foundations …
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Al-Muntakhab fi Usual al-Madhhab
… aim of this thesis is to edit a manuscript in 'Usul al-Fiqh (principles of Islamic jurisprudence) written according to the Hanafi school. The main manuscript used on the edition dates back to (690H/1292AD). The author is Husäm al-Din Muhammad bin Muhammad bin `Umar al-Akhsikathi, who died in …
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The practice of Islamic environmental ethics: a case study of Harim and Hima
Environmental Ethics is considered as a discipline of knowledge rather than just an ethical perspective related to environmental issues. Since it is a relatively new discipline, however, most of its scholars are inclined to focus on the theoretical part, while the practical part only really came to …
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Islamic law and social change : a legal perspective
… first instance to ascertain whether Islamic legal theory (usul) has made provisions for the accommodation of changing social exigencies. If such provisions have been made, are they adequately employed to achieve optimum benefit? In the second instance, the Islamic judicial process of discovering …
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Ijtihad in Twelver Shi-ism : the interpretation and application of Islamic law in the context of changing Muslim society
… on the Shi'ites' approach to the law with special reference to the debates in Iran following Imam Khomeini's emphasis on the "role of the time and place in Utihad". The thesis suggests that scientific knowledge in different areas should play a role in jtihad beside the judgements of those …
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Pious Critique: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and the 11th Century Practice of Juristic Disputation (Munāẓara)
The 5th/11th century Shāfi‘ī jurist Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī (d. 476/1083) rose to scholarly fame in the context of a Baghdad culture of pious critical debate. The emergence of the practice of disputation (munāẓara) within the 10th century Muslim lands of Iraq and Persia had shaped a class of jurists …
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Misplaced Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Muḥammad b. al Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ (d.189/804)
… of Islamic law, one quickly comes to the realisation that much of the historiography of early Islamic law reads like a love letter to Muḥammad b. al-Idrῑs al-Shāfiʿῑ (d.204/820). Such renditions remain as an ode to the ‘master architect,’ the ‘deus ex machina’ who emerged victorious at the …
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Islamic Law of Warfare and the Question of Suicide Terrorism: An Usuli Twelver Shia Perspective
… and ethnicity is the most important security challenge facing the world since the cold war. Among different types of terrorism its suicide version is the most complicated one to combat. Because a very high number of the current suicide attacks against civilian targets are executed by Muslim …