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Book: A Critical Edition of ʿUmdat al-Nāzir ʿalā al-Ashbāh wa’l-Naẓāʾir

Chapter: 5. The Purpose of al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyyah

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.30058

Blurb:

By examining the circumstances
surrounding the evolution of al-qawāʿid, I contend in Chapter 5 that al-qawāʿid can
be used to arrive at rulings for new incidents and explain why the development
of the genre was ad hoc.

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