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Fundamentals of jurisprudence

Course Description: This course includes an introductory overview of Usul al-Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence principles), its subject matter, and its origins. It will also cover methods of composition in Usul al-Fiqh and the most famous books on each method, the Sharia ruling, its two divisions: taklifi (obligatory) and wad'i (declarative). Additionally, it will discuss agreed-upon evidence and disagreed-upon evidence.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
It is related to legislative evidence
2. Defined by the science of Usul al-Fiqh, its importance, and the issues it revolves around.
3. Knowledge of the rulings of Islamic law (obligatory and placed).
4. Skillfully deals with newly emerging facts, cases, and issues and how to derive their rulings from the principles of jurisprudence.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- The science of Usul al-Fiqh is known.
2- It classifies the fundamentalist schools that emerged in the codification of the principles of jurisprudence.
3- Summarizes the history of the origins of Usul al-Fiqh.
4- Sets conditions for the assignment.
5- Identifies agreed-upon evidence.
6 - Recognizes controversial evidence.
Skills:
1- Compares Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh. .
2- It shows the reliable sources in the study of the science of Usul al-Fiqh.
3- Differentiates between Usul schools.
Distinguish between Taklifi ruling and Wad'i ruling. .
5- Differentiate between agreed-upon evidence.
Distinguish between disputed evidence.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
Discuss with colleagues the types and divisions of legal ruling.
2- Inquires about the types of positive law.
Discuss with colleagues the types of Islamic rulings and their divisions.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
Introduction to the science of Usul al-Fiqh, its subject matter, its origins, methods of authorship in Usul al-Fiqh, and the most famous books authored in each method.
The Islamic legal ruling, encompassing both the precatory and declarative types, and the obligatory ruling: its definition and classifications concerning the act, the actor, the time, and the amount, and the definition of the declarative ruling.
Its divisions: definition, conditions, and impediments to legal capacity (heavenly and chosen).
Agreed-upon evidence: The status of the Quran and some of its issues, such as types of recitations and their authority, and the rulings of abrogation.
Guide to the Sunnah and its divisions: Mutawatir and Ahad, conditions for acting on a solitary Hadith, ruling on a mursal Hadith.
Consensus: its definition, its authority, its conditions, and its types.
Measurement: its definition, validity, pillars, and conditions.
and its divisions, and the paths of causality.
What is disputed regarding the application of qiyas.
And the invalidators of the cause.
Disputed Evidences: The Saying of a Companion.
and the unrestricted public interest.
Law before us.
Blocking the means to evil and juristic preference.

Last updated: 2026-05-17