Mardi al-Anzi
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Mardi ibn Mashwah al-Anzi is a contemporary Saudi scholar and associate professor of comparative jurisprudence, known for his academic contributions to contemporary Islamic financial jurisprudence and contractual theory .
Academic Background and Career
Al-Anzi pursued his higher education at the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qassim University . He earned his master's degree in comparative jurisprudence with first-class honors on 25 Safar 1432 AH, completing a thesis on the legal implications of altering debt maturity terms entitled Taghayyur al-Ajal wa Atharuhu fi al-Duyun ("Change of Maturity Date and Its Effect on Debts") . Throughout his academic preparation, he consulted and received mentorship from Dr. Abdullah ibn Hamad al-Sikakar .
He subsequently completed his doctoral studies in comparative jurisprudence at Qassim University, graduating with first-class honors . His doctoral dissertation, Fiqh al-Handasa al-Maliya al-Islamiya ("Jurisprudence of Islamic Financial Engineering"), was the first doctoral dissertation defended in the College of Sharia at Qassim University . Following his graduate studies, he was appointed as an associate professor of comparative jurisprudence at Northern Border University in Saudi Arabia .
Scholarly Focus
Al-Anzi's legal scholarship primarily focuses on contemporary commercial law, Sharia compliance in Islamic banking, and the theoretical parameters governing novel financial contracts . He advocated bridging the gap between Islamic financial institutions and academic Sharia faculties through collaborative research, specialized economic curricula for jurisprudence students, and joint workshops between economists and jurists . In addition to legal studies, he addressed dialectics and practical reasoning, publishing an abridgment of Adil Mustafa's treatise on informal logic after obtaining the author's authorization .
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This legal treatise examines the validity, legal theory, and historical practice of introducing novel or unprecedented juristic opinions in Islamic law. It explores the tension between theoretical prohibitions against adopting new stances on settled matters and the practical occurrence of jurists formulating unrecorded views on previously discussed issues.
This academic treatise on Islamic finance and comparative jurisprudence investigates the theoretical foundations, legal instruments, regulatory parameters, and practical applications of Islamic financial engineering in contemporary banking, examining both classical legal contracts and modern financial products within Sharia frameworks.
This handbook on informal logic is an abridgment of Adil Mustafa's larger work on logical fallacies. It provides an introductory overview of practical logic and everyday reasoning, followed by a systematic presentation of informal fallacies, analyzing their structures, examples, and the conditions under which specific argumentative patterns occur.
This comparative jurisprudence study examines the legal rulings governing the acceleration or postponement of debt maturity dates and their contractual effects in Islamic law. Focusing on issues relevant to financial transactions, it analyzes term changes across areas such as insolvency, delay, debt rescheduling, discounts for early settlement, and death.