Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The reference book “Foundations of Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory” is a critical edition of Mabādiʾ al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl by al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī.
Foundations of Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory is a critical edition of Mabādiʾ al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl by al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī, based upon six manuscripts, four of which date from the lifetime of the author. Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi has provided a critical edition of the Arabic text, along with an English translation, and analytical introduction.
ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī participated in leading debates of his day and applied his vast erudition in philosophy, logic, and theology to the paramount subject of jurisprudence. This text presents an exemplar of the rich revival of Shīʿī scholarship in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE. Concise, yet comprehensive, this work sets the standard for the subsequent development and discussion of Imāmī Shīʿī legal theory, such that its influence can be traced through to modern times. This dual-text edition is indispensible for students and scholars of Imāmi Shīʿī jurisprudence.
About ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī
Jamāl al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Yūsuf b. al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (d. 726/1325) was an influential and prolific scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Imāmī Shīʿī school of Ḥillah, whose unrivalled mastery of the Islamic sciences earned him the unique title of al-ʿAllāmah, ‘the Doctor’.
Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi
Introduction, Translation and Arabic Edition of this reference book was written by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi
Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi, Ph.D., the University of Edinburgh, is the Dean of the Shīʿah Institute in London. He is the translator of The Mystery of Prayer (Brill, 2015) and is currently engaged with multiple academic projects including the study and translation of the Nahj al-balāgah.
Bibliographic Information
Title: Foundations of Jurisprudence – An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory
Author (s): al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī
Introduction, Translation, and Arabic Critical by: Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi
Publisher: BRILL
Length: 292 pages
ISBN: 978-9004311718
Pub. Date: November 10, 2016
Foundations of Jurisprudence – An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory
