Jamila bint Shafee
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Jamila bint Shafee (fl. 1442–1443 AH / 2020–2021 CE) is a contemporary researcher in Islamic jurisprudence .
Academic Career and Research
Her full name is Jamila bint Shafee Abd al-Rahman Ali . She pursued her graduate studies in Islamic jurisprudence at the College of Sharia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, completing her master's degree in the Department of Fiqh during the academic year 1442–1443 AH / 2020–2021 CE under the supervision of Muhammad ibn Sa'ud al-Khamis .
Her scholarly work centers on legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and comparative jurisprudence (fiqh muqaran), specifically examining the application of legal maxims governing textual prohibitions (nahy) and how contextual indicators (qara'in) divert them from strict unlawfulness (tahrim) to other rulings, such as reprehensibility (karaha) . In her study, al-Masa'il al-Fiqhiyya allati humila al-nahy fiha 'ala ghayr al-tahrim: min Kitab al-Tahara ila Bab Salat al-Tatawwu' ("Jurisprudential Issues in Which Textual Prohibitions Were Interpreted as Indicating Rulings Other Than Strict Unlawfulness: From the Book of Purification to the Chapter of Voluntary Prayer"), she analyzed eighty specific issues across ritual purity and prayer, examining textual evidence, juristic disagreement, legal preference (tarjih), and the validity of the contextual indicators cited by jurists .
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This academic study in Islamic jurisprudence, presented as a master's thesis at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University for the academic year 1442–1443 AH / 2020–2021 CE, investigates practical jurisprudential cases where textual prohibitions were interpreted as indicating rulings other than strict unlawfulness. It analyzes the legal rationales and contextual indicators that divert prohibitions from their primary legal implications across eighty specific issues, spanning the chapters of purification through the chapter of voluntary prayer.