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A fundamentalist textual reading

Course Description: The course includes textual reading and analytical study of original primary sources.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

The student will identify and compare Usul sources, and differentiate between classification methodologies in Usul al-Fiqh.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1- The student will learn about the concepts of reading, its types, methods, approaches, and skills.
2. The student reviews the concepts of a comparative contract, comparing what is read with one of the foundational books.
3. The student will enumerate methods of textual interpretation in the sections on legal ruling, ijtihad, and taqlid, from Usul al-Fiqh books representing different schools of thought and doctrines.
4. The student summarizes the author's statement, and identifies their methodology for critique and analysis.
Skills:
1- The student outputs Usul al-Fiqh terminology
The student reads the foundational texts according to the correct methodology for analysis.
The student distinguishes between types of text reading, their methods, and their approaches.
4. The student compares what they are reading with a foundational book.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
The student masters dealing with dissenters positively.
2- The student practices the work through a team
The student masters the independent execution of an individual assignment independently.
The student practices honesty in presenting and critiquing the statements of others, and accepts responsibility.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
Introduction: In the statement of the concept of reading, its types, methods, approaches, and skills
Reading textual material in the topics of legal ruling, ijtihad, and taqlid, from usul al-fiqh books representing different schools of thought and methodologies, so that the author's statement is analyzed and clarified, and the author's method and approach to criticism and analysis are understood, in the following books:
Al-Jassas (Hanafi) Origins
The Purity (Al-Mustasfa) by Al-Ghazali (Shafi'i)
The Essentials in the Principles of Jurisprudence by Abu Ya'la (Hanbali)
Perfection of Chapters in the Rulings of Usul by Al-Baji (Maliki)
The Definitive Rulings on the Principles of Rulings by Al-Amidi (Shafi'i)
The student is tasked with comparing what they read with one of the following foundational books:
– Usul al-Sarakhsi
– Calendar of Evidence by Abu Zayd al-Dabbusi
– Al-Faqih wal-Mutafaqqih by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
– The Cutouts by Ibn al-Sam'ani
– Al-Tamhid fi Usul al-Fiqh by Abu al-Khattab
— Al-Wadih fi Usul al-Fiqh by Ibn Aqil
– Al-Ihkam fi Usul al-Ahkam by Ibn Hazm
– Al-Mahsul fi Usul al-Fiqh by Al-Razi
Revealing the Secrets of Al-Bazdawi's Explanation of Al-Bukhari
- Approvals in the Fundamentals of Sharia by Al-Shatibi

Last updated: 2026-04-15