Colleges

Course Topics:
First: The principles of Usul al-Fiqh, its origin, development, and works.
– The Ten Principles of Usul al-Fiqh
The difference between Usul al-Fiqh and related sciences (Fiqh, Fiqh Rules, and Maqasid al-Shari'ah), with an explanation of their relationship.
A - Usul al-Fiqh Before Codification:
The era of the revelation of Islamic law.
– The era of the Companions and Successors.
The origins of deduction among the four imams:
1. The origins of the school of thought of Imam Abu Hanifa, in general.
2. The origins of Imam Malik's school of thought, in general.
3. The Foundations of Imam Al-Shafi'i's School of Thought, in General.
4. The Foundations of Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal's Doctrine in General
B- Codification and Development of Usul al-Fiqh:
The first to compile Usul al-Fiqh and the reasons for its compilation.
2. The Evolution of Codification in Usul al-Fiqh
3. Foundational Topics.
The methodologies of Usulists in authorship and their comparison
1. Prominent Usul works in various schools of thought.
2. Prominent Contemporary Works and the Role of Universities in Highlighting and Enriching the Science of Usul al-Fiqh 3
A Brief Overview of Renewal in Usul al-Fiqh and Establishing the Correct Methodology for Renewal
Second: The logical terms that the student needs in their study of the science of Usul al-Fiqh.
Introduction to:
– Definition of logic, its subject, its fruit, and the ruling on learning it.
– And the history of logic, its most important works, and its impact on the principles of jurisprudence
Logical terminology
1. Perception/Awareness: Its levels, the ruling on each level, and its methods with examples.
2. Acquired Knowledge: Its Types, Methods, and Representation.
3. Defining imagination and belief.
4. The four ratios between things and their examples
1. Semantics: Its reality, its divisions, and examples of each division.
2. Divisions of Vocabulary, Distinguishing Between Them with Examples, and Representing Them
1. (Principles of Conception): The Five Categories and their Representation.
2. (Objectives of Conceptualization): Definitions: Their reality and types, and conditions for their validity
(Certification Principles): Issues: Their Reality, Components, and Types 3
1-(Purposes of Verification): The reality and types of inference.
2. The meaning of syllogism for logicians and its general types. And the difference between it and legal syllogism.
3. Induction: Its reality and the distinction between its types.
– Degrees of Arguments and Differentiating Between Them