Hamad al-Hajri

Hamad al-Hajri is a contemporary Kuwaiti scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and a faculty member in the College of Sharia at Kuwait University, best known for his treatise on Islamic legal maxims regarding tort and financial compensation, al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-Fiqhiyya fi al-Daman al-Mali (Legal Maxims and Regulators in Financial Liability) al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1.

Academic Career and Scholarship

Hamad ibn Muhammad al-Jaber al-Hajri pursued advanced academic studies in Islamic law, completing his doctoral dissertation on the systematization of financial liability in comparative jurisprudence al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1. Following his graduate studies, he joined the academic staff of the College of Sharia at Kuwait University, where he has engaged in university teaching and served as an examiner on graduate thesis defense committees al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1.

Al-Hajri's jurisprudential research has focused primarily on the field of legal maxims (al-qawāʿid al-fiqhiyya) and domain-specific regulators (al-ḍawābiṭ al-fiqhiyya) al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1. In his major two-volume work, al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-Fiqhiyya fi al-Daman al-Mali, he compiled and analyzed the legal principles governing financial compensation (ḍamān), assessing their textual evidences, juristic reasoning, conditions of application, derivative legal rulings, and exceptions across various schools of Islamic jurisprudence al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1. He argued that the study of legal maxims required synthesis across school boundaries rather than confinement to individual madhhabs, applying these principles to modern issues such as bank payment cards alongside classical questions of direct and indirect liability al-Qawaid wal-Dawabit al-…+1.