The Foundations of Jurisprudence - An Introduction to Imāmī Shīʿī Legal Theory

Foundations of Jurisprudence is a dual-text critical edition, edited and translated by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi, of Mabādiʾ al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl, an introduction to Islamic legal principles (uṣūl al-fiqh) by the renowned Shīʿah jurist and theologian al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī.

About the author

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥasan b. Sadīd al-Dīn Yūsuf b. Zayn al-Dīn ʿAlī b. al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (d. 726 AH/ 1325 CE) was an influential and prolific scholar, jurist, and theologian of the Imāmī Shīʿī school of Ḥillah, whose unrivalled mastery of the Islamic sciences earned him the unique title of al-ʿAllāmah, or 'Doctor Maximus'.
Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is the Dean of the Shīʿah Institute in London, the translator of The Mystery of Prayer (Brill, 2015), and is currently working on an English translation of the Nahj al-balāgah.

Product details

• Authors: Al-&, Al-&all&m Al-&7716;ill&299;
• Assisted by: Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi (Editor), Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004311732
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31173-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Series: Classical Shīʿah Lib
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries