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Course Description: The course includes an introduction to the principles of jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh), its origins, schools of thought, and its relationship with other sciences. It also covers issues related to Usul al-Fiqh terminology and its branches, jurisprudential disagreements and related matters, and major theological issues influencing Usul al-Fiqh. .
Credit hours: 3
Objectives of the course :

Introduce the student to the most important issues of Usul al-Fiqh and the related causes that influence its formation, and enable the student to master the skills of connection, analysis, and knowing the influencer and the influenced.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
The student knows the major premises of the science of Usul al-Fiqh. .
2- The student will become familiar with the research methodology for major issues in Usul al-Fiqh.
3. The student will identify the steps for considering general issues in Usul al-Fiqh through the practical application of theoretical steps to some Usul al-Fiqh issues and the skill of studying them.
4. The student discusses major creedal issues affecting Usul al-Fiqh.
Skills:
To analyze the major issues in Usul al-fiqh.
2. To deduce the impact of major issues on the principles of jurisprudence.
To distinguish between the sayings on general issues in Usul al-Fiqh and their impact on scholarly disagreement among Usulists.
4. To build the principles of Islamic jurisprudence on major issues.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
The student should focus on practical application and persistently train on the course content.
2. To develop the ability to deal with dissenters positively.
3. To train on completing work through a team
4. To acquire the ability to dialogue and engage in positive confrontation with others.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
First: Introduction to Usul al-Fiqh, its origins, and its schools:
1 - Definition of Usul al-Fiqh. 2 - The Genesis of Usul al-Fiqh. .
3 - Schools of Usul al-Fiqh (School of the Theologians, School of the Jurists, The Integrative School, The Maqasid School, School of the Hadith Scholars)
Second: The relationship of Usul al-Fiqh with other sciences:
1 - The Relationship between Usul al-Fiqh and Aqidah (Ilm al-Kalam)
2 - The Relationship of Usul al-Fiqh to the Quran and its Sciences
3 – The relationship of Usul al-Fiqh with Hadith and its Sciences
4 – The Relationship Between Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh
5 – The Relationship between Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh Principles
6 - The Relationship Between Usul al-Fiqh and Maqasid al-Shari'ah
7 – The relationship between usul al-fiqh and the differences. .
8 - The Relationship between Usul al-Fiqh and the Arabic Language
9 – The Relationship Between Usul al-Fiqh and Logic

 

Third: The Usuli Term:
1 - Definition of Usul Terms, Their Types, and Characteristics
2 – Sources of the Usul al-Fiqh Terminology. .
3 – Common Terminology Between Usul al-Fiqh and Other Sciences
4 – The Impact of Usuli Terminology on Usuli Issues

Fourth: Fundamental Divisions:
1 – The Reality of Usul Divisions and Their Types
2 - Sources and Foundations of Usul al-Fiqh
3 – Examples of Usuliyyin Divisions in Some Usul Topics

Fifth: Fundamental Conditions
1 - The reality of usul (principles) and their types
2 – Sources of Usul al-Fiqh and their Evidences
3 - Examples of jurists' conditions in some jurisprudential sections

Sixth: Usul al-Fiqh reasoning:
1 – Deriving rulings from Islamic texts (Quran and Sunnah)
2 – Consensus Reasoning
3 – Analogical Reasoning

4 - Inductive Reasoning
5 – Deducing from the sayings of the Companions
6 – Reasoning in Language
7 – Reasoning with Intellectual Evidence (Presumption, Correlation, etc.)

VII. Scholarly Disagreement:
1 – The Reality of Scholarly Disagreement and Its Types
2 – Foundations of Scholarly Disagreement
3 – Legal reasoning

Eighth: Major Fundamental Issues
1 – Cutting and Guessing
2 – Text and Ijtihad

3 - Trial and Error
4 – The Whole and the Part
5 – Original and Derivative
6 - Time and Place. .

IX: Major العقيدة (Aqeedah) Issues Affecting Uṣūl al-Fiqh
1 - Mental Improvement and Degradation
2 – Justification of God's Actions and Rulings
3 – The Attribute of Speech for Allah Almighty

  • Last updated: 2026-04-15

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