Tag Archives: Ijtihad

After the demise of the Prophet (S) in the year 11/632, the need for ijtihad was felt acutely by the Sunnis, for they thought that the continuity of Divine guidance in the form of authoritative texts (nass) had ceased with his (S) demise and the only means of deter­mining the Divine laws that remained was to search for them in the Book of God and the statements and acts of the...

Some schools of fiqh which supported qiyas, especially the Hanafi school, believed in the role of reason in ijtihad....

Muslims do not believe in the conciliatory Ijtihad that sets out to justify the legal reality of many cases of deviation.

By studying the fatwas, the paper analyzes the main juridical reasons behind the fatwas of Khomeini and Al-Tantawi, who might be called neotraditionalists, and the issuance of such progressive fatwas through their classical methodology of...

This study demonstrates that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Shi‘i scholars elaborated and developed a specific Shi‘i theory of ijtihad. This chapter traces the genesis and development of both ijtihad (reasoning) and usul al-fiqh (legal theory) in Shi‘i intellectual history. It argues that the concern for knowledge and certitude, …

What follows is a translation of some of the conclusions reached by Sheikh Haider Hobbollah in his Rijāli discussions(منطق النقد السندي 1: 368 ـ 273) whereby he discusses the obstacles in reaching intellectually sounds conclusions in this field and...

Since the turn of the twentieth century, the main biographical sources and studies dealing with the life and thought of Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarabādī (d. 1036/1626-7) have upheld the view that he....

Martyr Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was a notable Shia cleric, philosopher, and ideological founder of the Iraq Islamic Dawa Party

Islam as a religion has a law discussion device that gives the scholars of Islamic law an independence to create and find exact solution for any facing...

Shi'ism Revisited moves beyond theoretical questions of reformation to address specific ways that Islamic law is being revisited by jurists....