Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)

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Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) is the scholarly discipline within Islam that derives and interprets detailed legal rulings from the Quran and Sunnah to govern the religious, social, and moral conduct of Muslims.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic legal discipline
branch of Islamic studies
religious law
addresses commercial contracts and financial transactions
fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage
judicial procedure and evidence
marriage, divorce, and inheritance
ritual purity and prayer
aimsTo derive legal rulings from Islamic sources
appliedIn Sharia Courts
surface form: Sharia courts
basedOn Quran
Sunnah
ijma (scholarly consensus)
qiyas (analogical reasoning)
characterizedAs human understanding of divine law
developedIn early Islamic centuries
distinguishedFrom Sharia
surface form: Sharia (divine law in principle)
fieldOfStudy Islamic law
hasComponent furu al‑fiqh (substantive rulings)
usul al‑fiqh (principles of jurisprudence)
hasMajorSchool Hanafi school
Hanbali school
Ibadi Islam
surface form: Ibadi school

Ja'fari school
Maliki school
Shafi'i school
Zaydi Shia
surface form: Zaydi school
influences modern legal systems in some Muslim‑majority countries
language Arabic (primary scholarly language)
regulates acts of worship (ibadat)
criminal law (hudud, qisas, ta'zir)
family law
personal conduct and ethics
transactions (muamalat)
relatedDiscipline hadith studies
kalam (Islamic theology)
tafsir (Quranic exegesis)
studiedBy Muslim jurists (fuqaha)
usesConcept disliked acts (makruh)
obligation (wajib or fard)
permissibility (mubah)
prohibition (haram)
recommendation (mandub or mustahabb)
usesMethod ijtihad (independent legal reasoning)
istihsan (juristic preference) in some schools
maslahah (public interest) in some schools
urf (custom) as a subsidiary source

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Surah An-Nur studiedIn Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
Ijma relatedConcept Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Ijtihad
Al-Istibsar religiousLawDomain Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Fiqh
Dar al-Harb hasComponentConcept Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: siyar (Islamic law of nations)
Ja'far al-Sadiq fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic law
Shawwal religiousRulingSource Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
Shariah Academy fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Fiqh
Kitab al-Nikah usedIn Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
mutawatir hadith isUsedIn Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic jurisprudence
Yan Taru educationalFocus Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic law (fiqh)
Sharia Courts basedOn Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
subject surface form: Sharia Courts (Nigeria)
Those Who Give Less in Measure and Weight violate Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic commercial law
Nabi mentionedInGenre Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Fiqh literature
Anglo-Muhammadan law formulations basedOn Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic jurisprudence
qadis requiresKnowledgeOf Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
this entity surface form: Islamic_jurisprudence