This paper offers a cursory reading in the Ibadhi legacy, drawing on its diversity in place and time. It investigates the notion of sunna in its different meanings and connotations in this legacy, in the linguistic, usuli and fiqhi usage as well as at its intersections with hadith, athar and sira. The article documents the...Read More
Exploring Islamic sources, Islamic rules are revealed for the sake of maslaha (wellbeing) in human life. However, in particular situations, implementing some rules might not achieve maslaha, and might even militate against it. In this regard, considering ma’alat (consequences of action) was suggested by al-Shatibi as a principle for providing exceptions in Islamic rules, either...Read More
The movement of thought in Islamic Law is continuously developing in line with the development of human reason. That is why there is no space to authorize and legitimate the classical ideas and traditional of Islamic schools of law that some times covered by syncretic traditions while the ideas starting intermingled with the existed local...Read More
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