Iman bint Salim Qabus
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Iman bint Salim Qabus is a contemporary academic scholar in Islamic legal theory (Usul al-Fiqh), known for her specialized research on the principles and applications of scholarly rectification in Islamic jurisprudence.
Academic Career and Research
She completed her doctoral degree in Usul al-Fiqh at the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Umm al-Qura University in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in the academic year 1436 AH / 2015 CE. Her doctoral research was supervised by Mahmud ibn Hamid Uthman.
Her primary scholarly contribution is her comprehensive study titled al-Istidrak al-Usuli: Dirasa Ta'siliyya Tatbiqiyya 'ala al-Musannafat al-Usuliyya min al-Qarn al-Thalith ila al-Qarn al-Rabi' 'Ashar Hijriyyan (Rectification in Legal Theory: A Theoretical and Applied Study on Works of Legal Theory from the 3rd to the 14th Century AH). In this work, she established the theoretical framework of istidrak (scholarly amendment, critique, and rectification) by extracting and categorizing its rules from classical treatises spanning eleven centuries, detailing its essential elements, conditions, causes, classifications, historical development, formulas, and ethical standards.
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al-Istidrak al-Usuli: Dirasa Tasiliyya Tatbiqiyya is an academic study in Usul al-Fiqh (principles of Islamic jurisprudence) presented as a doctoral dissertation in 1436 AH / 2015 CE at Umm al-Qura University. The work deduces and formulates the theoretical foundation of istidrak (rectification, critical review, and scholarly amendment) within Islamic legal theory, drawing on primary literature spanning from the 3rd to the 14th century AH to examine its principles, causes, typologies, historical development, formulas, and scholarly etiquette.