Purposes of the Sharīʿah in the Schools of Islamic Law

Summary

This book is a record of the proceedings of the Sixth Training Course that was organised by the Centre for the Study of the Philosophy of Islamic law, which is affiliated to the Al-Furqān. The training course took place in the period between the 25-29 February 2012 and was organised in co-operation with the Faculty of Law of Alexandria University. The studies submitted in this course centred around the concept of maqāṣid (objectives) of Islamic law in the various Islamic schools of thought, which include, for example, the Mālikīs, the Ḥanāfīs, the Shāfiʿīs, the Ḥanbalīs, the Ẓāhirīs, the Zaidīs and the Ibaḍīs. The training course also tackled the concept of the objectives of Islamic law in the perspective of Qāḍī Shurayḥ and Abū Bakr al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī, in addition to giving an overview on the importance of the encyclopaedic work of Bibliography for Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah (Al-Dalīl al-Irshādi ilā Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah) which covers the subject of the objectives of Islamic law in all Islamic schools of thought in an easy and simplified way.