Principles of Islamic jurisprudence
Subtitle: according to Shi'i law
By: translated by Arif Abdul Hussain ; edited by Hamid Algar and Sa'eed Bahmanpour.
Contributors: Hussain, Arif Abdul.; Algar, Hamid.; Bahmanpour, Saʻeed.
Publisher: Islamic Publications International
Published: 2005
Place of publication: North Haledon, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction.; Shīʻah.
Notes: Originally published: London : Islamic College for Advanced Studies Press, 2003.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Definition of the science of jurisprudence (fiqh); title: Definition of the science of the principles of jurispudence (usul); title: The science of usul, the logic of jurisprudence; title: Interaction between jurisprudence and usul; title: The permissibility of the procedure of deduction; title: Shar'i rulings and their divisions; title: Types of derivative procedure; title: General principles; title: Signification or indication; title: Usage; title: Dividing meanings into nominal (ismi) and particular (harfi); title: What indications are discussed in the principles of jurisprudence?; title: Absoluteness (al-itlaq); title: The authority of apparent meaning and state (hujjiyyat al-zuhur); title: Verification of issuance; title: Non-verbal religious evidence; title: Rational evidence, rational relationships; title: Relationships existing among different rulings : the relationship of contradiction between obligation and prohibition; title: Relationships existing between a ruling and its subject and those to whom it applies : stipulation and actualization; title: The relationships existing between a ruling and its preliminaries; title: The relationships existing within a single ruling; title: The primacy of rational caution; title: The secondary procedural principle; title: The principle of the accountability (a1-munajjiziya) of summary knowledge (al-'ilm al-ijmali); title: Dissolving the ambiguous knowledge; title: The presumption of continuity (al-istihab); title: Contradiction between the evidences; title: Contradiction between procedural principles.