Determinants of the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence and their Characteristics. A Reading in al-Taimīʿs Heritage

Abstract

 This paper is centered in searching the determinants of the science of Islamic Jurisprudence and the distinctive characteristics from others, by searching in the wide scholarly heritage of Ibn Taymiyyah (d 728 AH). It intended to specify the determinants and characteristics that reveal the nature of the science, studying their requirements and effects mentioned in al-Taymī’s presentation on multiple occasions, these determinants are four: the objective teleological determinant, the functional surname determinant, the deductive reference determinant, and the practical factual determinant, the study adopted the induction approach in collecting, and the analytical approach in editing and dealing with their contents.

Research findings: notifying the importance of mastering the determinants of science and its characteristics, explaining its effects on improving the science and the better handling of its issues, and preventing abuses due on violating it, from the uncontrolled overlap, mixing of science issues with each other, extracting extraneous subject, mix up of methodologies and paths, occurrence of inflation and repetition, manifesting al-Taymī’s role in notifying about those determinants and clarifying their requirements, and considering their status in the research and discussion.