Muhammad Sidqi Al Burnu
- Died
- 1446 AH
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Muhammad Sidqi Al Burnu (d. 1446 AH / 2024 CE) was a contemporary Islamic jurist and legal scholar best known for his extensive compilations on Islamic legal maxims (al-qawāʿid al-fiqhiyya), including Mawsūʿat al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya and al-Wajīz fī Īḍāḥ Qawāʿid al-Fiqh al-Kulliyya .
Name and Identity
His full name is Abu al-Harith Muhammad Sidqi ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad Al Burnu, with the geographical nisba al-Ghazzi signifying an association with Gaza . In contemporary academic and scholarly citations, he is frequently titled al-shaykh al-duktūr (doctor) .
Scholarly Contribution and Legacy
Al-Burnu's scholarship focused on systematizing, explaining, and codifying the universal rules and maxims of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) . His major compendium, Mawsūʿat al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya (The Encyclopedia of Legal Maxims), was published in Beirut as a broad reference organizing maxims and their subsidiary legal applications across Islamic legal traditions . He also authored the widely cited handbook al-Wajīz fī Īḍāḥ Qawāʿid al-Fiqh al-Kulliyya (The Epitome in Clarifying the Universal Legal Maxims), which provides concise elucidations of primary and subsidiary legal principles for students and researchers of Islamic law .
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List of Works
Mawsuat al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyya (The Encyclopedia of Legal Maxims) is a twelve-volume compendium of Islamic legal maxims. It gathers and categorizes thousands of maxims spanning the various schools of Islamic jurisprudence, presenting and explaining them in an alphabetical dictionary format.
al-Wajiz fi Idah Qawaid al-Fiqh al-Kulliya (The Epitome in Clarifying the Universal Legal Maxims) is a handbook on Islamic legal maxims. It presents a structured exposition of approximately 180 legal maxims and subsidiary rules, supported by legal proofs and comparative applications across the Sunni schools of law.