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What is a Madhhab?
Part 1. Usūl
On this 6th of Sha’ban 1444, we continue our series of posts on #metafiqh in preparation for our introductory publication.
A madhhab is compromised of five levels of legal infrastructure.
1. Usūl
2. Fiqh
3. Fatwā
4. Qadā’
5. Taqnīn
Level 1. Usūl
This is the evidenciary level of the madhhab’s infrastructure. It represents a heurmenutucal system through which revelatory texts are interpreted.
From such interpretations,
the following are derived:
a. creedal tenets
b. spiritual tenets
c. quranic exegesis
d. legal rulings
e. prophetic practice
The usūlī infrastructure of
the madhhab, although aimed particularly at the derivation of legal rulings, is an entire thought system compromising all these elements.
It is for this reason that each juristic school of thought is associated with an orthodox school of creed. Additionally, many Imāms who excelled in the foundations of law (usūl al-fiqh) also excelled in the foundations of theology (usūl al-dīn).…
The place of spiritual tenets in usūl is also critically important, although most often unpronounced.
In the pious period, the Imāms of fiqh were also spiritual exemplars.
While the four Imāms shared a common spiritual ethos, their fiqh exhibited ethical intradistinctions. The implications of spiritual ethics upon the sacred law is an important element of our metafiqh research. Through observation of the bidirectional influence of ethics and law…
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