8 results for “usul”

The school that systematized usul al-fiqh: Imam al-Shafi'i, his Risalah, and the school's glo...

The fourth source of Islamic law: how scholars derive new rulings by analogy to existing ones.

The third source of Islamic law: what constitutes consensus, its authority, and famous examples throughout history.

An introduction to the principles scholars use to derive rulings from the Quran, Sunnah, ijma, and qiyas.

The scholar who systematized Islamic legal theory and wrote al-Risala, the first treatise on the principles of jurisprudence.

The principle of maslahah (public benefit), its use as a supplementary source of law, the conditions scholars placed on it, and debates on its scope.

The concept of istihsan as a source of Islamic law, how Hanafi jurists applied it, its critics (notably al-Shafi'i), and its practical applications.

How al-Shafi'i systematized the methodology of Islamic jurisprudence in his revolutionary work al-Risalah, uniting the Hijazi and Iraqi schools of thought.