Islamic Legal Maxims

Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance of this concept in the application of Islamic law and demonstrates how the concept relates to the objectives of Islamic law (maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah), generally.

jurisprudential maxims play a vital role in the Islamic way of life, serve as a source for legislation and regulate daily transactions. This book expounds and renders 114 maxims into English. It also furnishes a theoratical perspective of religio-legal translation and sheds light on distinctions among related terms, namely: Juurisprudential maxims, fundamentalistic maxims and Jurisprudential canons.

This study analyses the legal maxims from a conceptual and historical point of view and gives a broad overview of the application of legal maxims in substantive law manuals as well as some other sub-genres.

This book considers the rarely studied but pervasive concepts of doubt that medieval Muslim jurists used to resolve problematic criminal cases.

Ahmed El Shamsy's The Canonization of Islamic Law is a detailed history of the birth of classical Islamic law. It shows how Islamic law and its institutions emerged out of the canonization of the sacred sources of Quran and Sunna (prophetic practice) in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. The book focuses on the ideas and influence of the jurist al-Shāfiʿī (d. 820 CE), who inaugurated the process of canonization, and it paints a rich picture of the intellectual engagements, political turbulence, and social changes that formed the context of his and his followers' careers.