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Definition of the science of jurisprudence (Fiqh) -- Definition of the science of the principles of jurispudence (Usul) -- The science of usul, the logic of jurisprudence -- Interaction between jurisprudence and usul -- The permissibility of the procedure of deduction -- Shar'i rulings and their divisions -- Types of derivative procedure -- General principles -- Signification or indication -- Usage -- Dividing meanings into nominal (ismi) and particular (harfi) -- What indications are discussed in the principles of jurisprudence? -- Absoluteness (al-itlaq) -- The authority of apparent meaning and state (hujjiyyat al-zuhur) -- Verification of issuance -- Non-verbal religious evidence -- Rational evidence, rational relationships -- Relationships existing among different rulings : the relationship of contradiction between obligation and prohibition -- Relationships existing between a ruling and its subject and those to whom it applies : stipulation and actualization -- The relationships existing between a ruling and its preliminaries -- The relationships existing within a single ruling -- The primacy of rational caution -- The secondary procedural principle -- The principle of the accountability (a1-munajjiziya) of summary knowledge (al-'ilm al-ijmali) -- Dissolving the ambiguous knowledge -- The presumption of continuity (al-istihab) -- Contradiction between the evidences -- Contradiction between procedural principles.
translated by Arif Abdul Hussain ; edited by Hamid Algar and Sa'eed Bahmanpour.
Originally published: London : Islamic College for Advanced Studies Press, 2003.