Al-Shāfi’ī’s position on analogical reasoning in Islamic criminal law: Jurists debates and human rights implications

• Main Author: Zakariyah, Luqman
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
• Subjects: BP3790 Criminal law and procedure; KBP Islamic Law; KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh; KBP425 Uṣūl al-fiqh. Jurisprudence and theory of law. Science of legal reasoning.; KBP469 Influence of other legal systems on Islamic law; KBP490 Furūʻ al-fiqh. Substantive law. Branches of law.
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/52837/1/Al-Shari%27is%20Position%20on%20Analogical%20Reasoing%20in%20islamic%20Criminal%20Law%20Published%20Int%20J%20Semiot%20Law.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52837/12/52837_Al-Sh%C4%81fi%E2%80%99%C4%AB%E2%80%99s%20Position%20on%20Analogical%20Reasoning%20in%20Islamic_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52837/7/Al-Sh%C4%81fi%E2%80%99%C4%AB%E2%80%99s%20Position%20on%20Analogical%20Reasoning%20in%20Islamic%20Criminal%20Law%20Jurists%20Debates%20and%20Human%20Rights%20Implications_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/52837/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-016-9495-4

Al-Sha¯fi’ı¯ (d. 204/820) has been unreservedly credited as one of the designers, if not the “master architect,” of uṣūl al-fiqh (Principles of Islamic jurisprudence). His most important scholarly work, Al-Risa¯lah (The Epistle), clearly demonstrates his cognitive creativity in this field. One of...