![]() ![]() ![]() This process of understanding the primary sources and extracting from them guidance and ruling in a systematic manner is called ijtihad (independent research). In other words, it helps us find evidences for various rulings through comparison, co-analysis, combination and other relevant principles of information analysis from sources of Islamic guidance - Quran and Sunnah. This book will be an important resource for Shari a students everywhere.Usul al-fiqh is the body of knowledge which clarifies the various foundation principles and research methods and principles that aid us extracting the rulings from Qur’an and Sunnah and shows us how to derive benefit from them. Meticulously rooted in the core texts of Islamic scholarship, An especially helpful feature is a long and detailed glossary of Islamic technical terms. It surveys the distinctive features of their jurisprudence, and assesses their achievement. This detailed study offers biographies of these four men and their leading pupils. By assessing and ranking hadith, by cultivating a deep knowledge of the Arabic language, and by virtue of their great native intelligence, they are credited with having shaped the development of the fundamental systems of Muslim jurisprudence, avoiding the twin pitfalls of subjective rationalism and blind literalism.īy doing so they not only protected their religion from chaos and disorder, but showed the Muslims, both ordinary and expert, the safest and most reliable ways of avoiding error in the understanding and practice of the divine law. THE GREAT EDIFICE of Islamic Law is held up by four towering figures of the early middle ages: Abu Hanifa, Malik, al-Shafi i, and Ibn Hanbal.īecause of their immense dedication and intellectual acuity, these men enjoy recognition to this day as Islam s most influential scholars. A really excellent and we'll detailed book is: the four imams, by Jibril Haddad. ![]()
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