Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence

1 Characterization of jurisprudence: a preliminary word; characterization of jurisprudence; the subject matter of jurisprudence; the discipline of jurisprudence is the logic of legal understanding; the importance of the discipline of jurisprudence in the practice of derivation; jurisprudence is to legal understanding as theory is to application; the interaction between legal-understanding thought and jurisprudential thought; the permissibility of the process of deriving divine-legal rulings. 2 Substantiating arguments: the divine-law ruling and its subdivision; the division of rulings into injunctive and declaratory; categories of the injunctive ruling; areas of discussion in the discipline of jurisprudence; the divine-law argument. 3 Procedural principles: the fundamental procedural principle; the secondary procedural principle; the principle of the inculpatoriness of non-specific knowledge; the presumption of continuity. 4 The conflict of arguments: conflict between substantiating arguments; conflict between (procedural) principles; conflict between the two types of argument.