Athar al-Ikhtilaf fi al-Qawaid al-Usuliyya fi Ikhtilaf al-Fuqaha
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Athar al-Ikhtilaf fi al-Qawaid al-Usuliyya fi Ikhtilaf al-Fuqaha (The Impact of Disagreement in Legal-Theoretical Principles on the Disagreement of Jurists) is a contemporary work on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) by Dr. Muhammad Hasan Abd al-Ghaffar .
Subject Matter and Scope
The work belongs to the genre of legal-theoretical literature concerned with connecting secondary legal rulings to primary methodological rules (takhrij al-furu' 'ala al-usul) . It addresses how theoretical divergence among legal theorists over fundamental interpretative maxims and principles directly produces differences among jurists regarding practical rulings and subsidiary matters of Islamic law .
Such areas of legal-theoretical divergence include:
- Differences regarding how linguistic expressions convey legal rulings (dalalat al-alfaz), such as the divide between the majority method and the Hanafi classification of explicit, implied, or contextual indications .
- The scope and comprehensiveness of expressions, including general and specific (al-'amm wa-l-khas) and absolute and qualified (al-mutlaq wa-l-muqayyad) terms .
- The legal implications of commands and prohibitions, and whether general expressions convey definitive or probabilistic knowledge .
- Principles governing apparent textual contradiction and preference (al-ta'arud wa-l-tarjih), abrogation (naskh), and the specification or qualification of texts from the Quran and the Sunna .
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