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Tahsil Usul al-Fiqh

An in-depth study of al-Nasafi’s (d. 537) Taḥṣīl uṣul al-fiqh who decoded Ḥanafī legal theory through an explanation of the roots of legal principles and how Māturidī Hanafīs differ from Muʿtazilīs and Ahl al-Ḥadīth.

Instructor:

  • Dr Issam Eido

Original price was: £299.00.Current price is: £249.00. — or £120.00 / month for 3 months

Start Date: 5th April

Mode of Delivery: English

Frequency: Sundays

Level: Intermediate

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Prerequisites: A prior study of at least one primer (matn) in usul al-fiqh.

Programme Duration: ~40 Lessons (exc. breaks)

Timings: 9am EST | 2pm BST (1 Hour)

Overview

تحصيل أصول الفقه وتفصيلا المقالات فيها على الوجه

Taḥṣīl uṣul al-fiqh wa tafṣīl al-maqālāt fīhā ʿalā al-wajh is considered an abridged book of al-Samarqandī’s Mizān al-uṣul fī natāʾij al-ʿuqul. Both are written with a purpose of showing Ḥanafī Māturidī perspectives towards Hanafi legal theory. The book states in the beginning that students of usul al-fiqh are required to be aware of the theological (kalāmī) background of legal principles. To achieve this objective, al-Nasafī (the same author of al-ʿAqāʾid al-nasafiyya, one of the most celebrated treatises in the history of kalam) decoded Ḥanafī legal theory through explaining the roots of legal principles and how Māturidī Hanafī differs from Muʿtazilī and Ahl al-Ḥadīth and those who follow them among Ḥanafīs in Iraq. 

The text shall be translated in class, and registered students will be able to access a digital version of the course text, recordings, and links to the Telegram group and discussion/question forum, and any other resources.

**Due to the instructor’s summer engagements, the class will be on break between 31st May until 30th August**

Topics:

The book covers the regular topics of the Ḥanafī usul al-fiqh (100 pages). The topics of the class is as following:

  • Introduction to Hanafi usul and the two major schools: Samarqandī and Irāqī
  • Definition of usul and fiqh
  • Sources (adilla):
  1. Al-Kitāb: The theory of interpretation
  2. Sunna
  3. Consensus
  4. Legal analogy
  5. Contradiction
  • Rulings (aḥkām)

About Instructor: Dr Issam is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Religious Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He was a former Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a research fellow at the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard University. Prior to the Syrian uprising, Eido served as a lecturer in the faculty of Islamic Studies in the Department of Qur'an and Ḥadīth Studies at the University of Damascus. His doctoral work, 'Early Ḥadīth Scholars and their Criteria of Ḥadīth Criticism,' presented a new understanding of the criteria used by Muslim scholars in accepting or rejecting Ḥadīth attributed to the Prophet. Eido is one of the main students of well-known muḥaddith Shaykh Nūr al-Dīın ʿItr. In addition to Shaykh ʿItr, Eido studied and got traditional ijaza from several well-known scholars such as Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kurdī, Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAwwāma, and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāghūrī, and Shaykh Maḥmūd Maṣrī.

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