Description
Course Overview
This course is a two-day intensive on qiyas, ijma’ and ijtihad. The course is designed to give students a deeper understanding of the conceptualisations and implementation of ijma’ and qiyas in Islamic legal theory and, in particular, as sources and methods utilised during the process of ijtihad. This will also include looking further the historical background of these jurisprudential tools and how understandings of these tools have evolved over time. There will be a focus on differentiating between understandings in the various Islamic sciences, including kalam, usul al-fiqh and fiqh itself.
Students will be provided with an understanding of the framework of Islamic legal theory in order to adequately determine the role of ijma’ and qiyas in relation to the sources, methods and principles of Islamic legal theory.
