Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence

Professor Ahmad Hasan

Paperback, 500 Pages, Black & White
6.69 x 9.61 Inches
Dar Ul Thaqafah

This study deals with the concept, rules and application of Qiyas as developed in the medieval period. The early chapters contain a general treatment of this principle. These are followed by chapters relating to definition of Qiyas, the original and the parallel case. The most difficult problem in Qiyas is the illah. We have extensively dealt with it dividing it into seven chapters. The Chapters relating to condition (shart), cause (sabab) and impediments (mawani‘) have also been included, as they are indirectly connected with the ‘illah. As istihsan is a latent analogy (qiyas khafi), we have dealt with this problem in a separate chapter.

Qiyas has remained all along a controversial subject. We have therefore analysed the points of view of its exponents and adversaries and discussed their arguments in greater detail.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 – The Development of the Principle of Qiyas – an historical perspective
• Chapter 2 – A general survey of Qiyas
• Chapter 3 – Justification of Qiyas
• Chapter 4 – Subject matter of Qiyas
• Chapter 5 – The kinds of Qiyas
• Chapter 6 – Definition of Qiyas
• Chapter 7 – The Original Case
• Chapter 8 – The Parallel Case
• Chapter 9 – Rationality of legal injunctions
• Chapter 10 – Definition of legal cause
• Chapter 11 – The conditions of legal cause
• Chapter 12 – The kinds of legal cause
• Chapter 13 – The methods of determing the legal cause
• Chapter 14 – The modes of reasoning in legal cause
• Chapter 15 – The mediate cause and its kinds
• Chapter 16 – The condition and its kinds
• Chapter 17 – The sign and its kinds
• Chapter 18 – The impediments to the rule of law
• Chapter 19 – The Principle of Istihsan
• Chapter 20 – The Critique of Qiyas
• Conclusion