In the origins of the Islamic legal system

The educational goal is predominant in what contemporary publishing houses produce of works in the fundamentals of jurisprudence, and achieving this goal may only require narrating familiar discussions and concepts that early scholars of usul al-fiqh used to repeat in a similar language, with the same examples. There is no need, with the dominance of this goal, for analysis, critique, comparison, or tracking the development of these concepts, or observing their application in reality and evaluating their work. Therefore, the aim of this book is to go beyond the educational process of usul al-fiqh to present a framework that explains the functioning of the Islamic legal system in the past, and provides the current legal work with what may shape its legal philosophy that guides it to achieve the values of justice, freedom, equality, and human dignity. The goal that this book seeks to achieve is a dual one: both from the desire to facilitate understanding of the traditional legal, judicial, and legislative structure, which is embedded in our civilizational and legal history; and at the same time, from the desire to reflect this structure in contemporary legal systems, contributing to their development, and linking them to their legislative memory in a way that provides them with the necessary strength for progress and advancement on political and legal levels.