Research Catalog

Title

Principles of Islamic jurisprudence / Mohammad Hashim Kamali.

Author

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim

Publication

Cambridge, UK : Islamic Texts Society, 2003.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 546 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

In this work, Kamali presents a detailed exposition of the theory of Muslim jurisprudence. Written as a university textbook, it is suitable not only for students of Islamic law, but also for anyone with an interest in Muslim societies.

Subject

• Islamic law
• Jurisprudence > Islamic countries
• Islamitisch recht
• Rechtsbronnen
• Droit islamique
• Droit > Pays musulmans

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-535) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction ot Uṣūl al-Fiqh -- The first source of Sharīʻah : The Qurʹan -- The Sunnah -- Rules of interpretation I : deducing the law from its sources -- Rules of interpretation II : al-Dalālāt (textual implications) -- Commands and prohibitions -- Naskh (abrogation) -- Ijmāʻ (consensus of opinion) -- Qiyās (analogical reasoning) -- Revealed laws preceding the Sharīʻah of Islam -- The Fatwā of a companion -- Istiḥsān (equity in Islamic Law) --Maṣlaḥah Mursalah (considerations of public interest) -- ʻUrf (custom) -- Istiṣhāb (presumption of continuity) -- Sadd al-Dharāiʻ (blocking the means) -- Hukm Sharʻī (law or value of Sharīʻah) -- Conflict of evidences -- Ijtihā (personal reasoning) -- A new scheme for Uṣūl al-Fiqh -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 0946621810 (cloth)
• 9780946621811 (cloth)
• 0946621829 (pbk.)
• 9780946621828 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004396310

OCLC

• 53382977
• SCSB-12694126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library