Muhammad Dakuri
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Muhammad Dakuri (also known as Muhammad Dembe Dakuri) is a contemporary Malian scholar of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) and Quranic recitations (qira'at), known for his treatise al-Qat‘iyya min al-Adilla al-Arba‘a ("Definitiveness in the Four Sources of Law") .
Education and Scholarly Activity
Originally from Mali, Dakuri pursued advanced studies in Islamic religious disciplines, including legal theory and Quranic sciences . In the field of Quranic recitations, he studied under the Egyptian scholar Mahmoud ibn Abd al-Khaliq Jado, completing a full recitation (khatma) of the Quran according to the ten recitations via the transmissions of al-Shatibiyya and al-Durra .
In legal theory, he authored al-Qat‘iyya min al-Adilla al-Arba‘a, an investigation into certainty and definitiveness across the four foundational sources of Islamic jurisprudence—the Quran, the Sunnah, consensus (ijma‘), and legal analogy (qiyas)—which was published by the Deanship of Scientific Research at the Islamic University of Madinah in 1420 AH (ca. 1999–2000 CE) .
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al-Qatiyya min al-Adilla al-Arbaa (Definitiveness in the Four Sources of Law) is a specialized treatise on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) that examines epistemological certainty and definitiveness (qat'iyya) within the four primary legal sources: the Quran, the Sunna, consensus (ijma'), and legal analogy (qiyas).