uṣūl al-fiqh

uṣūl al-fiqh

▪ Islamic law
      in classical Islāmic theory, the four major sources from which law is derived: the Qurʾān; the sunna, or sunnah (practice of the Prophet as transmitted through his sayings); ijmāʿ (consensus of scholars); and qiyas (analogical deductions from these three). The uṣūl, systematized under ash-Shāfiʿī (767–820), were the result of an Islāmization of law that began about the 2nd century of the Muslim era (8th century AD).

      Law existed apart from religion under the first four caliphs and the Umayyad dynasty and was generally administered through existing pre-Islāmic institutions of foreign (Roman, Byzantine, Jewish, Persian) character. Pious Muslim scholars, who were later grouped into the ancient legal schools of Iraq, Hejaz, and Syria, began to reinterpret the law in an Islāmic light. Ash-Shāfiʿī completed this Islāmization process by establishing a norm for interpretation, the uṣūl, but the functions of the individual principles were fixed in legal theory by later scholars.

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