Foundations of Jurisprudence - An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory (Classical Shi'ah Library, 1) (English and Arabic Edition) - Softcover

Al-Ḥillī, Al-ʿallāmah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004311734 ISBN 13: 9789004311732

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2016

Synopsis

Foundations of Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory is a critical edition of the Arabic text with a parallel English translation of Mabādiʾ al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl by al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī, introduced, edited and translated by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi.
Al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī participated in the leading debates of his day and applied his vast erudition in philosophy, logic, and theology to the paramount subject of jurisprudence. This text presents an exemplar of the rich revival of Shīʿī scholarship in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of the Common Era. Concise, yet comprehensive, this work sets the standard for the subsequent development and discussion of Imāmī Shīʿī legal theory, such that its influence can be traced through to modern times. This dual-text edition is indispensable for students and scholars of Imāmi Shīʿī jurisprudence.

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Jamal al-Din Abu Man?ur al-?asan b. Sadid al-Din Yusuf b. Zayn al-Din ?Ali b. al-Mu?ahhar al-?illi (d. 726 AH/ 1325 CE) was an influential and prolific scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Imami Shi?i school of ?illah, whose unrivalled mastery of the Islamic sciences earned him the unique title of al-?Allamah, or ‘Doctor Maximus’.
Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is the Dean of the Shi?ah Institute in London, the translator of The Mystery of Prayer (Brill, 2015), and is currently working on an English translation of the Nahj al-balagah.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9004311734
• ISBN 13: 9789004311732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273
• Editor: Shah Naqavi Sayyid Amjad Hussain