Talk:Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

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I do not see any problems with this page being here. What I really want if someone can add some more informaton about the key differences of principles amongst the four great imams. Dr Abul Kalam Azad

[edit] Ra'y

The term Ra'y as a principle of Islamic jurisprudence has its roots in the early debate between Muslim scholars as to the interpretation of the divine texts. The idea of the followers of Ra'y was to use reason as the basis of Islamic legal interpretation. Ra'y could be placed within the context of fiqh but it must be differentiated from usul al-fiqh, since usul al-fiqh was the attempt by Imam Shafi'i to reconcil the differences between the schools of Ra'y (reason) and Hadith (revelation). Usul al-fiqh and the following period of taqlid (imitation) virtually closed the debate between reason and revelation until the late nineteenth century utilitarian reforms of Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida.

see Wael Hallaq, A History of Islamic Legal Theories, (1997)

(Corbindanny 12:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC))

In my view, Fiqh (jurisprudence) and Usool al-Fiqh (principles of jurisprudence) are two separate topics and deserve their own pages. There are historically thousands of books written on each subject as distinct subjects. (Zafer Iqbal)