Khalid al-Ruwayti
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Khalid al-Ruwayti (Khalid ibn Musaid ibn Muhammad al-Ruwayti) is a Saudi scholar of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and a faculty member at the College of Sharia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, best known for his treatise al-Tamadhhub: Dirasah Nazariyyah Naqdiyyah ("Adherence to a Legal School: A Theoretical and Critical Study").
Academic Career and Research
Al-Ruwayti pursued his higher academic education in legal theory at the College of Sharia in Riyadh at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. During the 1424–1425 AH academic year, he completed his master's thesis under the supervision of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Sadhan, which consisted of an edition and study of the second part of Luma' al-Lawami' fi Tawdih Jam' al-Jawami' by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Raslan al-Ramli, covering the sections from consensus (ijma') through independent legal reasoning (ijtihad).
He subsequently prepared his doctoral dissertation at the same department, entitled al-Tamadhhub: Dirasah Nazariyyah Naqdiyyah, under the supervision of Fahd ibn Muhammad al-Sadhan, alongside examination committee members Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Anqari and Muhammad Sa'd ibn Ahmad al-Yubi. He was awarded his doctorate with distinction and first-class honors on 24 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1431 AH, and the study was published in Riyadh in 1434 AH (2013 CE). Following his postgraduate studies, he joined the faculty of the College of Sharia at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.
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List of Works
al-Tamadhhub - Dirasah Nazariyyah Naqdiyyah (Adherence to a Legal School: A Theoretical and Critical Study) is an academic treatise on Islamic jurisprudence and legal theory (usul al-fiqh) published in three volumes in 1434 AH (2013 CE). The work examines adherence to a specific school of Islamic jurisprudence (madhhab) from theoretical and critical perspectives, clarifying conceptual boundaries with related notions such as imitation, independent reasoning, and following, while investigating legal rulings and derivations for novel legal issues.