Legal maxims and other genres of literature in islamic jurisprudence

Arab Law Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-101

  Kamali, Mohammad Hashim ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

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EID: 77952780933     PISSN: 02680556     EISSN: 15730255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/026805506777525429     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Joseph Schacht, An Introduction to Islamic Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964, mentions Qawa'id Fiqhiyya in passing and refers to them in his glossary as "rules, the technical principles of positive law, subject of special works" (p. 114, 300);
2. Wolfhart Heinrichs, "Structuring the Law: Remarks on the Furuq literature" in Ian Richard Netton (ed.), Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth. Vol. I: Hunter for the East: Arabic and Semetic Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2000, 332-344;
3. Idem, "Qawa'id as a Genre of Legal Literature" in Bernard Weiss, ed., Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, Leiden: Brill 2002, 364-385.
4. This last article is useful on bibliographic information, related Arabic terminology, as well as classification of legal maxims. A more recent addition is Khaleel Mohammed, "The Islamic Law Maxims, " Islamic Studies 44, no. 2(1426/2005), 191-209.
5. See Mohammad Hashim Kamali, "Shari'ah and the Challenge of Modernity, " Journal of the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) vol. I (1994), 1-27
6. reprinted in the Islamic University Quarterly (London) Vol. 2, no. 1(1995), 10-37;
7. Idem, "Fiqh and Adaptation to Social Reality, " The Muslim World, 86(1996), 62-85;
8. "Methodological Issues in Islamic Jurisprudence, " ALQ 11(1996) 62-85;
9. and "Issues in the Legal Theory of Usul and Prospects for Reform, " Islamic Studies 41(2001), 1-21.
10. Cf. Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Subki, Al-Ashbah Waíl- Nazaíir, ed. 'Ali Ahmad Ibn 'Abd al-Mawjud and 'Ali Muhammad 'Iwad. 2 Vol. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1411/1999, 1, 11.
11. Subhi Mahmassani, Falsafat al-Tashri' fil-Islam: The Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam. Eng. Trans. Farhat J. Ziadeh, Leiden: EJ. Brill 1961, p. 151;
12. Shaykh Muhammad al-Zarqa, Sharh al-Qawa'id al-Fiqhiyya, 3rd edn. Damacus: Dar al-Qalam, 1414/1993, p. 33.
13. Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Shatabi, al-Muwafaqat fi Usul-Ahkam, 11, 83-84.
14. Cf. 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sabuni, et al., al-Madkhal al-Fiqhi wa Tarikh al-Tashri al-Islami, Cairo: Maktaba Wahba, 1402/1982, p. 389.
15. Cf. Heinrichs "Qawa'id as a Genre of Legal Literature, " n. 1, 372.
16. Muhammad 'Amim al-Ihsan al-Barikati. Qawa'id al-Fiqh, Dacca (Bangladesh): Zeeco Press, 1381/1961, pp. 142-143.
17. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 1, p. 382.
18. Sabuni, al-Madkhal, n. 5, p. 389.
19. The Mejelle: Being an English Translation of Majallah el-Ahkam el-Adliya, trans. C. R. Tyser, reprint, Lahore, Law Publishing Co. 1967, Art. (19).
20. See also 'Amim al-Barikati, Qawa'id al-Fiqh n. 7, p. 88 and 139.
21. Cf. Mahmassani, Falsafat, n. 1, p. 152;
22. Zarqa n. 1, Shark al-Qawa'id, p. 34.
23. Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, Kitab al-Furuq, Cairo: Matba'a Dar al-Ihy' al-Kutub al-'Arabiyyam 1386H, vol. 4, p. 40;
24. see also Jamal al-Din 'Atiyya, al-Tanzir al-Fiqhi, Doha (Qatar) n. d., 1407/1989, p. 208.
25. Cf. Sabuni, al-Madkhal, n. 5 p. 398.
26. The Mejelle n. 10, (Art. 17);
27. see also Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, p. 157.
28. Cf. al-Sabuni, al-Madkhal, n. 5 p. 100.
29. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, pp. 163-64.
30. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, p. 238;
31. al-Barikati, Qawa'id, n. 7, p. 125.
32. See for detail M. H. Kamali, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, Cambridge: The Islamic Text Society, 3rd revised and enlarged ed., 2003. Ch. 14 on Custom, 369-384.
33. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 1, p. 221.
34. The Mejelle, n. 10, (Art. 37).
35. Cf. Kamali, Jurisprudence, p. 373.
36. The Mejelle, n. 10, (Art. 85). Another substantially similar maxim, albeit in different words, is al-ghanamu bi'l-gharam-liability for loss proceeds from one's entitlement to profit."
37. Cf. al-Barikati, Qawa'id al-Fiqh, n. 7, p. 94.
38. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, p. 429.
39. The Mejelle no. 10, (Art. 16).
40. Cf. al-Barikati, Qawa'id al-Fiqh, n. 7, p. 56.
41. Al-Barikati, Qawa'id al-Fiqh, n. 7, p. 65;
42. see also Abd al-Wahhab Ibrahim Abu Sylayman. Kitabat al-Bahth al-'Ilmi Wa Masadir al-Dirasat al-Fiqhiyya, Jeddah: Dar al-Shuruq, 1403/1983, vol. 2, p. 652.
43. Cf. al-Brikati, Qawa'id al-Fiqh, n. 7, p. 56.
44. Cf. 'Atiyya, al-Tanzir, n. 13, p. 18;
45. sabuni, al-Madkhal, n. 2, p. 387.
46. Cf. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, pp. 43-44.
47. Cf. Abu-Sulayman, Kitabat al-Bahth al-'Ilmi, n. 28, vol. 2, p. 677.
48. The Mejelle n. 10, (Art. 58).
49. See also Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id. n. 3, p. 253.
50. Zayn al-'Abidin Ibrahim Ibn Nujaym, al-Ashbah wa'l-Naza'ir, ed. 'Abd al-'Aziz Muhammad al-Wakil, Cairo: Mu'assasa al-Halabi li'l-Nashr wa'l-Tawzi', 1387/1968, p. 67f.
51. Muhammad al-Husayn Kashif al-Ghita, Tahrir al-Mujalla, Najaf, 1359, p. 63;
52. Jamal al-Din 'Atiyya, al-Tanzir al-Fiqhi, n. 13, p. 1407/1987, p. 75;
53. Sabuni, Madkhal, n. 5, p. 39.
54. Cf. Abu-Sulayman, Kitabat al-Bahth, n. 8, vol. II, p. 660.
55. Zarqa, Shark al-Qawa'id, n. 3, p. 42.
56. See for details 'Atiyya, al-Tanzir, n. 13, pp. 131-32.
57. 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri, Masadir al-Haq fi'l Fiqh al-Islami, Cairo: Ma'had al-Buhuth wa'l Dirasat al-'Arabiyya, 167, vol. 1, p. 78.
58. see also Sabuni, Madkhal, n. 5, p. 380.
59. Cf. Abu-Sulayman, Kitabat al-Bahth, n. 28, vol. II, p. 678.
60. See for further detail Mohammad Hashim Kamali. Punishment in Islamic Law: An Enquiry into the Hudud Bill of Kelantan, Kuala Lumpur, 'Ilmiah Publishers, 2000, 23ff.
61. For further details on harmonisation, see M. H. Kamali, "Harmonisation of Shari'ah and Civil Law: The Framework and Modus Operandi, " IIUM Law Journal 11(2003), 149-169;
62. Idem, "Shari'ah and Civil Law: Toward a Methodology of Harmonisation, " Islamic Law and Society (forthcoming).