Fundamentals of understanding legal texts: a foundational analytical study of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence and law to establish the science of the principles of judicial Islamic jurisprudence by Dr. Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al-Khudai

This book deals with the rules of deriving judicial rulings from systematic evidence; through an introduction that includes defining the science that leads to understanding the systematic evidence, its relation to Islamic sciences represented by the science of jurisprudence and its roots, and its relation to legal sciences represented by the study of interpreting legal texts and legal drafting rules. Then the book begins with the first chapter, which discusses general rulings as the fruit derived from systematic evidence. These rulings are either rulings that establish obligation to act or refrain, or approve a permissibility of a certain action; these are the speech rulings. Or the systematic evidence may contain a ruling that clarifies a cause, condition, or preventer, grants a license, or decrees the invalidity of an action; these are the substantive rulings. We also added a third section called the rulings of declaration, which are those rulings that establish general policies, mention specific definitions, refer to systematic materials, and others. After clarifying the general rulings, the book proceeds to detail the judicial systematic evidence, as it is the raw material from which rulings are produced. The second chapter discusses these evidences, clarifying their levels, and concludes with the rules of their application. The third and fourth chapters include methods of processing evidence to reach a ruling. They serve as the link between the first chapter, which contains the details of the rulings, and the second chapter, which explains the systematic evidence. The third and fourth chapters are like the path that leads to understanding the evidence and reaching the correct systematic ruling through it. The third chapter explains verbal indications, while the fourth chapter is dedicated to rational indications, which are outside the direct investment of systematic texts. The book concludes with a chapter on the rulings of ijtihad and conflicting evidence, to clarify the conditions required for those who undertake deriving systematic rulings, and what may occur if there is a conflict in the evidence, along with ways to resolve it.