Abd al-Salam al-Shuwayir
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Abd al-Salam ibn Muhammad al-Shuwayir is a contemporary Saudi scholar and professor of comparative Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh muqaran) . He is known for his research on modern legal questions, including Athar Amal al-Mar'a fi al-Nafaqa al-Zawjiyya (The Impact of Women's Work on Spousal Maintenance) .
Academic career and scholarship
Al-Shuwayir serves as a faculty member in the Department of Sharia Sciences at the King Fahd Security College in Saudi Arabia . In contemporary legal jurisprudence, he contributed peer-reviewed research on the effects of wives' employment on financial maintenance to a symposium held in 1432 AH (2011 CE) by the Research Center of Excellence in Contemporary Fiqh Issues at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University . He has also authored foundational legal studies on jurisprudential disagreement, examining the reception of Zahiri legal differences in substantive law .
In addition to legal research, al-Shuwayir has edited classical Hanbali texts. He verified and published a collection of four short treatises by the Hanbali scholar Musa ibn Ahmad al-Hajjawi (d. 968 AH), having earlier published an edition of al-Hajjawi's commentary on ethical conduct, Sharh Manzumat al-Adab, in 1425 AH . He also edited the concise Hanbali legal primer Mukhtasar fi Fiqh al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal by Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad Khuqir al-Makki (1284–1349 AH) .
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Athar Amal al-Mar'a fi al-Nafaqa al-Zawjiyya (The Impact of Women's Work on Spousal Maintenance) is a contemporary treatise on comparative Islamic jurisprudence that examines how a wife's employment outside the home affects her entitlement to financial support from her husband.
Tajrid Ahadith Umdat al-Fiqh is a work on hadith extraction (takhrij) that isolates, references, and assesses all the prophetic traditions incorporated in Umdat al-Fiqh, the Hanbali primer composed by Ibn Qudamah.